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UA Names College of Optical Sciences After Founding Dean
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 27, 2019 — University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins announced Feb. 25 that its College of Optical Sciences will be renamed in honor of Professor Emeritus and founding dean James C. Wyant, who has donated $30 million to the college over the past six years. Renaming the college as the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences recognizes Wyant’s significant impact in academia and as a business leader in the field and his exceptionally generous philanthropic contributions to the university and the...
ICFO Showcases Graphene-Based Wearables at MWC 2019
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25, 2019 — A new device from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) will allow users to monitor their level of exposure to sunlight through a UV sensor. Designed as a flexible, transparent, disposable patch, it connects to a mobile device and alerts the...
Perovskite Quantum Dots Deliver Coherent Single-Photon Emission
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 25, 2019 — In an advancement toward a single photon source for use in quantum computing and communications devices, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and ETH Zurich showed that individual perovskite quantum dots could be used as a...
Funding Aims to Improve Global Gravitational Wave Network
SWINDON, England, Feb. 25, 2019 — U.S. and U.K. science funding agencies have earmarked $30 million in additional funding aimed at significantly increasing the sensitivity of gravitational wave observatories around the globe. Improvements to the global gravitational wave network,...
Defects in Perovskites Could Have Positive Impact on Optoelectronic Devices
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 22, 2019 — In a quest to design more efficient solar cells and LEDs, an engineering team from the University of Washington in St. Louis analyzed different types of defects in the semiconductor material that enables such devices to determine if and how these...
Thermally Painted Metasurfaces Yield Perfect Light Absorbers
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 22, 2019 — A 3000-year-old metallurgy technique of heating metal to create vibrant colors creates a nanostructured surface that acts as a perfect light absorber, researchers from Case Western Reserve University have found. The team applied its findings to...
Control of Nanowire Growth Advances Silicon Photonics
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb. 21, 2019 — Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Luasanne (EPFL) Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, together with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Ioffe Institute in Russia, have discovered a way...
‘Crystal Ball’ VR System Supports Collaborative Tasks
VANCOUVER and SASKATOON, Canada, Feb. 21, 2019 — Researchers at the University of British Columbia and University of Saskatchewan have developed a ball-shaped VR display that supports up to two users at a time, using advanced calibration and graphics rendering techniques that produce a complete,...
UTA Engineer Earns NSF CAREER Grant to Develop Bioinspired 3D materials
ARLINGTON, Texas, Feb. 20, 2018 — Kyungsuk Yum, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development Program grant to design and develop bioinspired 3D materials with...
With a Few Tweaks, a Near-Perfect Absorber Can Become a Time-Reversed Laser
DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 19, 2019 — With small adjustments, a near-perfect absorber of electromagnetic waves can be changed into a coherent perfect absorber (CPA), a device that absorbs coherent light and shows near-zero reflectance and high absorption. A CPA, also known as a...
New Use for Quantum Dots: Tracking the Pollination Process
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa, Feb. 18, 2019 — A pollination biologist from Stellenbosch University is breaking new ground in his field by using quantum dots to track and label individual pollen grains. His novel, low-cost method could enable biologists to track the whole pollination process,...
Fluorogenic Method Detects Two-Protein Aggregation in Live Cells
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Feb. 15, 2019 — A new method uses fluorescence to detect potentially disease-causing forms of proteins as they misfold and unravel due to stress or mutations. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) and the University of Washington re-engineered...
Improving the Stability and Optical Properties of Perovskite Films
HONG KONG, Feb. 14, 2019 — A new approach to producing all-inorganic perovskite films — the result of a joint research effort by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Shanghai University — could further the development of high-color-purity, low-cost perovskite LEDs with a...
Scientists to Test Light Therapy as Relief from Side Effects of Cancer Treatment
BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 14, 2019 — University at Buffalo (UB) researchers have received part of a $1.5 million grant to investigate light therapy as a replacement for prescription opioids in treating oral mucositis, painful ulcers, and swelling in the mouth that result from...
For Quantum Computing, New Hardware Platform Based on 2D Materials
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13, 2019 — To harness the capability of quantum computing, hardware must be developed that can access, measure, and manipulate individual quantum states. In response to this need, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a new hardware...
Researchers Find New Method for Fabricating Optical Metasurfaces
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Feb. 13, 2019 — A way to produce glass metasurfaces that can be either rigid or flexible, developed by engineers from the EPFL Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices, could be used to fabricate all-dielectric optical metasurfaces quickly, at low...
DBR Suppresses Spectral Crosstalk for Improved IR Imaging Performance
EVANSTON, Ill., Feb. 12, 2019 — Northwestern University engineers discovered a way to suppress spectral crosstalk between dual-band long-wavelength photodetectors. Their findings could reduce image distortion and improve IR imaging performance, potentially opening the door for a...
Collaborators Develop an Ultra Quiet Laser, with Chip-scale Applications
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2019 — Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara and their collaborators at Honeywell, Yale, and Northern Arizona University have developed a chip-scale laser capable of emitting light with a fundamental linewidth of less than 1 hertz (Hz)...
Data-Driven Spectroscopy Has Potential to Speed Development
ESPOO, Finland, Feb. 1, 2019 — Artificial Intelligence for Spectroscopy (ARTIST) is a new approach to spectroscopy that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the spectroscopic analysis of materials and discovery of new molecules or materials. ARTIST was developed by...
Researchers Demonstrate Fractal Light from Lasers
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan. 31, 2019 — A team from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the University of Glasgow has demonstrated that fractal light can be created from a laser, verifying a prediction made roughly two decades ago. The researchers provide experimental evidence...
Blue OLED-on-Silicon Sensor Detects Phosphorescence
DRESDEN, Germany, Jan. 31, 2019 — Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP have developed a miniaturized phosphorescence sensor that combines marker and sensor on a small chip surface about the size of a thumbnail. OLED...
UA Project to Provide Interdisciplinary Access to Quantum Resources
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 30, 2019 — University of Arizona (UA) researchers are building a shared research and training instrument to help scientists in diverse fields benefit from quantum resources, including those with no expertise in quantum information science. Professor Zheshen...
Optical Microscopy System Observes, Stimulates Multiple Living Cells
KOBE, Japan, Jan. 30, 2019 — A new optical microscope uses holographic techniques to stimulate multiple cells simultaneously and monitor cell activity after stimulation. Developed by researchers at Kobe University and called SIFOM for three-dimensional (3D) Stimulation and...
All-Photonic Quantum Repeaters Could Lead to Faster, More Secure Quantum Internet
TORONTO, Jan. 29, 2019 — Researchers at the University of Toronto are working to address the challenges of transmitting quantum information securely over great distances using optical fiber communication. They have developed a prototype for a key element for all-photonic...
Lens-Free, Multicolor Holography Technique Could Enable Compact 3D Displays
DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 28, 2019 — A holography technique based on computer-generated holograms (CHGs), developed by a team at Duke University, produces complex, multicolor holographic images without any bulky optical components. The researchers encoded a multicolor image onto a 300-...
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