New approach to radio interference provides all-optical detection of micro- and radiowaves with noise mitigation 1000x better than existing methods.
Optics
"Living liquid crystals" created by Argonne researchers
Liquid crystal/Bacillus subtilis mix may have interesting applications for new material design and fabrication.
Improving plasmonic sensors to better detect biomolecules
Researchers combine nanoplasmonic architectures and interferometry to bring nanoscale biosensors to near-commercial levels of sensitivity.
Programmable metamaterial has custom vibration response
Vibration-damping material can also specifically conduct certain frequencies.
Multi-spectral materials in the visible, infrared, and terahertz
The combination of a plasmonic color filter and a terahertz metamaterial absorber exhibits unique resonant phenomena over several decades of wavelengths.
Hyperuniform disordered photonic materials with a complete band gap
Due to their unique properties these fascinating materials are predicted to possess a complete photonic bandgap without any long-range order.
Best of Advanced Optical Materials – Now online
Advanced Optical Materials has made a selection of the best articles from 2013 available to download for free.
New measuring system for special optic devices
University spin-off wants to enter the market with EasyPrecision – a high-precision optical measuring system.
Controlling light with light
A new approach to control light with light without the need for optical nonlinearity has been suggested by a Russian-British research group.
Better modeling of metamaterials
EPFL scientists have developed an innovative mathematical method to greatly improve computer modeling of metamaterials.
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