Novel hybrid system with gold nanocrescents evaporated over artificial opals shows unexpected optical properties.
Advanced Optical Materials
Nanocrystalline films that don't crack
Vancouver researchers develop nanocrystalline cellulose with added sugars to counteract the tendency of such materials to crack.
Advanced Optical Materials publishes Issue 2
The second issue of Advanced Optical Materials is now online, including twelve research articles covering all aspects of light-matter interactions.
Increasing SERS enhancement in patterned nanoparticle arrays
How to improve efficient focusing of light on the nanoscale by using lithographically patterned metal nanoparticle arrays.
Low-cost organic solar energy from new photovoltaic cell
Scientists at ICFO develop a new organic photovoltaic cell which is more efficient at producing energy .
The Holy Grail in Plasmonics – The Lycurgus Cup Goes Nano
Professor Logan Liu and co-workers at University of Illinois create large-area, high-density nanoscale arrays based on the the Lycurgus Cup.
Advanced Optical Materials publishes first issue
The first independent issue of Advanced Optical Materials is now online, including a review on magnetoplasmonics as well as ten excellent, original research articles.
Maximum Resolution through Solid Immersion
Stefan Hell and co-workers have achieved maximum spatial resolution in far-field optical imaging by applying solid immersion lenses to stimulated emission depletion microscopy.
Seeing the Light? Making Sense of Disorder in Polymer Opals
A new hyperspectral goniometry technique, to measure 3D angular scattering of light, shows scattering from polymer opals is anisotropic.
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