Light can carry enormous amounts of information at extreme speeds, making photonic technologies promising for the development ...

Researchers have developed a new form of programmable “virtual” metasurface that can rapidly control light in ways not ...

Recently, a research team from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has employed metasurfaces to fabricate angle-dependent holograms with multiple functions. This technology allows ...

The technological advancement of optical lenses has long been a significant marker of human scientific achievement. Eyeglasses, telescopes, cameras, and microscopes have all literally and figuratively ...

Researchers created an ultra-thin optical array that controls photons like bulky quantum devices, offering a scalable path to room-temperature quantum photonics. (Nanowerk News) In the race toward ...

Programmable metasurfaces are ultrathin electromagnetic (EM) interfaces that can dynamically shape the direction, energy ...

(Nanowerk News) A photon is the quantum (the minimum amount involved in an interaction) of any form of electromagnetic radiation, such as light. Photons are essential to a number of current research ...

Stranger Things fans will be familiar with this scene: Eleven, a girl with telekinetic powers, stares intently at a Coke can. Without physically touching the can, she completely crushes it using her ...

Researchers have designed new metasurfaces using nanoscale techniques inspired by kirigami that could offer a new chip-based way to achieve nanoscale control of light, which could lead to better ...

Harnessing the power of 'phase-change' materials, researchers have demonstrated how reconfigurable metasurfaces -- artificial materials with extraordinary optical properties -- are crucial to the ...