Improving optical communications: better structures or new materials?

How shape-shifting gratings and lenses are changing optical devices

Tuneable micro-structured surfaces could overcome the limitations of current unchangeable components that result in “static” optical devices.

Composite materials illuminated with machine learning

Researchers take a different approach to machine learning to uncover the physics of optics in composite materials.

Researchers use laser paintbrush to create miniature masterpieces

The new technique creates color on metal that can be changed, erased, and rewritten.

Bottlebrush polymers create a rainbow of structural colors

Researchers create a new and elegant way of producing nanostructured microparticles, yielding a vibrant palette of colors from a single polymer brush.

Flickering shadows of the fine skeleton of a cell

A new method with unprecedented resolution allows researchers to visualize dynamic and elusive mechanisms that underpin essential biological processes, such as cell division.

The high-throughput highway to computational optoelectronic semiconductor screening

High-throughput computational materials screening is turning out to be an efficient highway to optoelectronic semiconductor design.