A team of researchers has developed a new way to trap light on a ...

Van der Waals (vdW) materials are promising building blocks for next-generation nanophotonics because of their atomically smooth surfaces, diverse material families, and outstanding optical properties ...

Degenerate band edge (DBE) phenomena represent a striking feature in periodic photonic structures, in which four Bloch eigenmodes coalesce at a unique point in the dispersion diagram. This degeneracy ...

A photon enters a tiny disk of layered crystal no wider than a human hair. It circles the rim, bouncing along atomically ...

New photonic chip traps light for millions of cycles, boosting efficiency for AI, quantum tech, and computing.

Van der Waals (vdW) materials are promising building blocks for next-generation nanophotonics because of their atomically smooth surfaces, diverse ...

Researchers used their new technique to fold a glass bar (a), create an optical resonator (b) to achieve helical bending (c) and to create a table with a parabolic reflector (middle, lower row).

Researchers at The City College of New York have shown how a quantum emitter, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, interacts in unexpected ways with a specially engineered photonic structure ...

Taking inspiration from the 3D photonic structures on a Morpho butterfly’s shimmering blue wings, scientists at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have developed colored solar ...

Many of today’s computing and communications applications demand almost unimaginable processing capability and high-bandwidth access to memory. For example, many data center systems using high-end ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The vibrant blue of a morpho butterfly's wings doesn't come from pigments but from light interacting with microscopic structures on its surface. This phenomenon – structural color ...