To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

Advanced optical materials are crucial in the development of many everyday appliances that enhance our lives. These materials have the unique ability to manipulate light in various ways, allowing us ...

What are Tunable Optical Materials? Tunable optical materials are a class of nanomaterials that can manipulate light in a controllable and dynamic manner. These materials have optical properties, such ...

A newly studied ferroelectric crystal can tune and manipulate ultraviolet and blue light in ways that could transform integrated photonics.

Plasma irradiation removes graphite from the pencil lead, exposing a thin layer of clay. By controlling the exposure time, the thickness of this layer can be varied to modulate the infrared (IR) ...

After decades of intense research, surprises in the realm of semiconductors—materials used in microchips to control ...

The study of nonlinear optical (NLO) materials has gathered substantial momentum as researchers explore their capacity to transform incident light into new frequencies. These materials underpin ...

Photon, an elementary particle that transmits electromagnetic interaction, is a kind of gauge boson. Photons are the carriers of electromagnetic radiation, and photons are considered as the medium of ...

In an era where autonomous navigation, medical diagnostics and remote sensing are rapidly evolving, traditional cameras— limited to capturing only the red, green, and blue (RGB) light intensities—are ...

The material the team studied, barium titanium sulfide (BaTiS 3), a hexagonal crystal, was already known to have large optical anisotropy, but scientists couldn't figure out why. It took years of back ...

HOYA PHOENIX lenses made from PPG TRIVEX lens material show less damage in impact testing PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced the results of tests carried out in collaboration ...