X-ray imaging and controlled solidification is used to watch and understand how crystals evolve in metals.
Technology
Low-cost, large-area plasmonic perfect absorbers
Tunable, angle- and polarization independent absorber fabricated using a combination of colloidal lithography, with disordered arrangement, and dry-etching.
Investigating next generation LED materials
Research from a Canadian-German collaboration focuses on a next generation nitridolithoaluminate phosphor, SLA, as a breakthrough material.
Micro power meter can measure nanowire heat transfer
Researchers have developed a microscale powermeter that directly measures light absorption and heat transfer in individual nanowires.
Modified monolayer graphene interacts strongly with terahertz waves
Confining light into ultra-small metallic gaps dramatically boosts light interaction with graphene.
Electrically controllable metamaterial surfaces
Researchers have added to the development of next generation photonic media by realizing an electrically tunable liquid crystal-metamaterial hybrid.
Optical antennas for switchable holographic smart pixels
Researchers from University of Cambridge have proposed a new type of multi-functional pixel elements for next generation holographic display technologies.
Light to work to electricity: photopiezoelectric polymer composites
Light is transduced to electrical energy in photopiezoelectric polymer composites based on azobenzene-functionalized polyimides and polyvinylidene fluoride
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – Feb. 2015
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Improving nanoparticle cellular uptake
A group at the University of Adelaide have developed an intracellular GSH-responsive drug delivery system with enhanced cellular uptake capability.
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