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Atoms-Thick Light Emitting Device Promises the Advent of Transparent Displays
March 27, 2018
In 2015, Ali Javey, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkley published a paper in…
Self-sweeping laser could dramatically shrink 3D mapping systems
September 4, 2015
A new approach that uses light to move mirrors could usher in a new generation of laser technology…
New light for design classics
July 2, 2015
PH lamps and other design icons will now be producing light similar to that of the classic incandescent…
Scientists light up graphene – world’s thinnes light bulb is one atom thick
June 19, 2015
Team of researchers from Columbia University, Seoul National University and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science have…
World’s thinnest lightbulb–graphene gets bright!
June 18, 2015
Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone’s group at Columbia Engineering, a team…
On-demand X-rays at Synchrotron Light Sources
May 27, 2015
Consumers are now in the era of “on-demand” entertainment, in which they have access to the books, music…
Study sheds light on elusive warm dense matter
March 26, 2015
In the last few decades, scientists have been harvesting enormous amounts of data using synchrotron light sources to…
Nature’s designs inspire research into new light-based technologies
September 18, 2014
“Nature has developed, very cleverly, some lessons on how to create the features that we desire in optical…
Electrically controllable chiral light source demonstrated
May 19, 2014
All kinds of light consist of the superposition of right-handed and left-handed circularly polarized light. Circularly polarized sources…
How Could Light-emitting Monolayers Benefit Soldiers?
April 29, 2013
Army scientists want to make sense of the fascinating properties of novel layered materials that can exist in…
Engineers Enable ‘Bulk’ Silicon to Emit Visible Light for the First Time
April 2, 2013
Electronic computing speeds are brushing up against limits imposed by the laws of physics. Photonic computing, where photons…
The Spark Within: Light-Emitting Bioprobe Fits in a Single Cell
February 14, 2013
Stanford study is the first to demonstrate that sophisticated, engineered light resonators can be inserted inside cells without…
Light-emitting triangles may have applications in optical technology
February 9, 2013
For the first time, scientists have created single layers of a naturally occurring rare mineral called tungstenite, or…
Lights in the Darkness and Hope from the Labs
January 2, 2013
Dark nights often bring out bright lights. That’s especially true at this time of year, the short days…
- Precision gas sensor could fit on a chip
February 26, 2015 - Efficient light emission from silicon quantum dots with carbon coating
January 29, 2013
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