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Quantum Sensor Uses its Own Light to Detect Biomolecules Quantum Sensor Uses its Own Light to Detect Biomolecules
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 7, 2025 — The development of a compact, self-illuminating plasmonic sensor could make high-performing optical biosensors more accessible for rapid diagnostics and environmental monitoring and in point-of-care settings. The plasmonic biosensor can focus light waves down to a scale small enough to detect proteins and amino acids, without needing a bulky, expensive external light source. By exploiting a quantum phenomenon called inelastic electron tunneling, researchers at the École
Accurate Skin Tone Measurement with Smartphone Improves Pulse Oximetry Accurate Skin Tone Measurement with Smartphone Improves Pulse Oximetry
PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 2, 2025 — A smartphone-based imaging technique for measuring skin pigmentation could improve the accuracy of pulse oximetry readings, particularly for people with darker skin tones. Pulse oximeters are used to measure oxygen saturation levels in the blood....
Industry-Academia Collaboration Fabricates Chips to Optimize Mobile Traffic Industry-Academia Collaboration Fabricates Chips to Optimize Mobile Traffic
MÁLAGA, Spain, July 1, 2025 — Photonic computer chips capable of directing a mobile signal straight to a user’s smartphone are being developed by Vodafone and the Photonics and Radiofrequency Research Lab, at the University of Málaga. The researchers are using...
Optical Cavity Design Boosts Sensor Performance Across Application Areas Optical Cavity Design Boosts Sensor Performance Across Application Areas
LONDON, July 1, 2025 — Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) used an optical reference cavity — a well-established method to enhance laser stability — to improve optical storage time in laser frequency stabilization and to cancel spurious...
Perovskite emerges as Alternative to Silicon in Image Sensors Perovskite emerges as Alternative to Silicon in Image Sensors
ZÜRICH, Switzerland, June 30, 2025 — The image sensors found in smartphones and digital cameras distinguish colors in a similar way to the human eye. In our retinas, individual cone cells recognize red, green and blue (RGB). In image sensors, individual pixels absorb the corresponding...
Terahertz Light Probes Tissue Changes for Diagnosis Terahertz Light Probes Tissue Changes for Diagnosis
STONY BROOK, N.Y., June 27, 2025 — Changes in tissue structure, such as to the boundaries of cancerous tumors, occur in many disease processes. Terahertz (THz) waves demonstrate the potential to detect these changes. The ability to identify and characterize microscopic structural...
Real-Time 3D Imaging and AI-Driven Analysis Tackle Antibiotic Resistance Real-Time 3D Imaging and AI-Driven Analysis Tackle Antibiotic Resistance
SEOUL, South Korea, June 26, 2025 — Advanced imaging technology, combined with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis, enabled the discovery of a natural antimicrobial peptide (AMP), called Hirunipin-2, that could help scientists address the global challenge of antibiotic...
Metasurface Tech Can Hide Dozens of Images in a Single Screen Metasurface Tech Can Hide Dozens of Images in a Single Screen
POHANG, South Korea, June 25, 2025 — From smartphones and TVs to credit cards, technologies that manipulate light are deeply embedded in our daily lives. However, conventional holographic technologies have faced limitations, particularly in displaying multiple images on a single screen...
Eindhoven University of Technology Opens R&D Institute Eindhoven University of Technology Opens R&D Institute
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, June 24, 2025 — Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is opening a new research institute dedicated to semiconductors, quantum, photonics, and the development of high-tech systems and chips of the future. The new institute emerges an existing institute —...
AI Hardware Accelerator Boosts Novel Optical Processor AI Hardware Accelerator Boosts Novel Optical Processor
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 20, 2025 — As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become challenging to manage the amount of wireless spectrum available for all users to share. Against this backdrop, MIT...
A Network of Optical Clocks Aims to Redefine the Second A Network of Optical Clocks Aims to Redefine the Second
WASHINGTON, June 19, 2025 — Historically, the global standard for keeping time has been based on an average of signals from cesium microwave atomic clocks from around the world. Now, as the precision and stability of optical clocks steadily improve, there is growing momentum...
Photons Measured Through Head Show Imaging Potential Photons Measured Through Head Show Imaging Potential
GLASGOW, Scotland, June 18, 2025 — With the appropriate optical setup, it is possible to measure photons as they travel diametrically across the inside of the adult human head. This discovery, made by scientists at the University of Glasgow, could contribute to the development of...
Transparent Film, Using Graphene, Boosts Photonics Applications Transparent Film, Using Graphene, Boosts Photonics Applications
DAEJEON, South Korea, June 18, 2025 — Researchers at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) developed a transparent film that stably disperses graphene. The film, the transparency of which changes depending on the intensity of light, can be used in a variety of...
Device Advances Optical Computing by Controlling Light Polarization Device Advances Optical Computing by Controlling Light Polarization
SALT LAKE CITY, June 17, 2025 — Fiber optic cables can transport information at the speed of light, but the ability to perform computations with that data, without translating it back to electric signals, will require a host of new optical components. In the future, a...
Light-Based Bacteria Control May Quell Antibiotic Resistance Light-Based Bacteria Control May Quell Antibiotic Resistance
MILAN, June 17, 2025 — Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a growing challenge for the health care and environmental sectors. Bacterial persistence is usually the first step leading to resistance, which involves a change in an organism’s genome. In the future, it...
Ozcan Group Applies AI Element to Waveguide Design Ozcan Group Applies AI Element to Waveguide Design
LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2025 — The Ozcan Lab at UCLA used artificial intelligence (AI) to create diffractive waveguides that can control light in ways that are challenging to achieve using conventional waveguides. Unlike traditional dielectric waveguides, which rely on the...
Nanoimprinted Metalenses Enable Nonlinear Conversion of IR to Visible Nanoimprinted Metalenses Enable Nonlinear Conversion of IR to Visible
ZURICH, June 16, 2025 — A nonlinear metalens, made using nanoimprint lithography, is able to change the wavelength of laser light while at the same time functioning as a normal, light-focusing lens. When 800-nm infrared (IR) light is sent through the metalens, 400-nm...
Laser Technique Sinters Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics Without a Furnace Laser Technique Sinters Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics Without a Furnace
RALEIGH, N.C., June 13, 2025 — Ultrahigh-temperature ceramics (UHTCs) are designed to withstand extreme environments, making them indispensable in aerospace, defense, and energy applications. Hafnium carbide (HfC) in particular is well-suited for thermal protection coating...
Quanta Sensors Boost Bioluminescence for Microscopy Quanta Sensors Boost Bioluminescence for Microscopy
NEUHERBERG, Germany, June 13, 2025 — A microscope built with quanta image sensor (QIS) technology will allow researchers to visualize bioluminescence signals in living cells in detail and over long durations. Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM)...
Quantum Dots Distinguish Novel Surface-Emitting Laser Architecture Quantum Dots Distinguish Novel Surface-Emitting Laser Architecture
TOKYO, Japan, June 10, 2025 — Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) collaborated to develop a practical surface-emitting laser that employs quantum dots (QDs) as the optical gain medium for use in...
New Model Could Lead to Better OLEDs New Model Could Lead to Better OLEDs
FUKUOKA, Japan, June 9, 2025 — Researchers at Kyushu University have developed a new analytical model that details the kinetics of the exciton dynamics in OLED materials. The findings could enhance the lifetime of OLED devices and accelerate the development of more advanced and...
Single-chip System Integrates Optical and Microwave Processing Single-chip System Integrates Optical and Microwave Processing
LEUVEN, Belgium, June 6, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a fully-integrated single-chip microwave photonics system, combining optical and microwave signal processing system, combining optical and microwave signal processing on a single silicon chip. The technology can replace...
Researchers Convert Fluctuating Lasers into Stable Beams Researchers Convert Fluctuating Lasers into Stable Beams
ITHACA, N.Y., June 5, 2025 — Researchers at Cornell and MIT have demonstrated how noisy, amplified lasers can be transformed into ultra-stable beams using optical fibers and filters. According to the researchers, the method — which converts fluctuating lasers into stable...
Multilayered Nanophotonic Materials Enhance Light-Matter Interactions Multilayered Nanophotonic Materials Enhance Light-Matter Interactions
MUNICH, June 4, 2025 — Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), in collaboration with a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), developed ultrathin optical components that react strongly to weak light and capture light more effectively...
Laser Method Enables Fast & Precise Blood Vessels in Hydrogel Laser Method Enables Fast & Precise Blood Vessels in Hydrogel
VIENNA, June 3, 2025 — Researchers from Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and Keio University have found a way to create artificial blood vessels in miniature organ models in a quick and reproducible manner. The method utilizes ultrashort laser pulses in the...

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