Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and travel distance. For decades, researchers have explored ...

Chemists from Tomsk Polytechnic University, as part of a scientific collaboration and with the support of the federal program of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation ...

Physicists and chemists at Heidelberg University have realized a photonic microchip that is driven by light just as easily as ...

Asymmetric optical transmission refers to the engineered phenomenon whereby light propagates with different efficiencies in opposite directions within a photonic structure. This effect is achieved by ...

A single layer of atoms may seem too thin to meaningfully interact with light, yet materials like tungsten disulfide are reshaping what is possible in nanophotonics. Researchers have now found a way ...

III-V photonic crystal (PhC) lasers are potential ultra-compact and power-efficient light sources for future on-chip optical ...

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).

With the end of Moore’s Law rapidly approaching—some say it’s already here—new applications of older technologies are gaining attention. One specific area of interest is photonics. The National Center ...

New York University (NYU) scientists uncovered a material that could help bring photonic computing a little closer to reality. Dubbed "gyromorphs," the material performs better than any other known ...

(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 ...

Taara, a graduate of X, Google’s Moonshot Factory, today announced a breakthrough approach to commercial communications and connectivity infrastructure ...