Common filter paper decorated with gold nanoparticles used to create sensitive chemical/biological detection system — work described at the AVS meeting in Baltimore next month Using a... Read more
A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire, a finding that could be a step towards building computer chips capable of transporting di... Read more
Scientific breakthrough to potentially revolutionise high-speed electronics, nanoscale opto-electronics and nonlinear optics Assistant Professor Christian A. Nijhuis of the Department of Che... Read more
Using an inexpensive inkjet printer, University of Utah electrical engineers produced microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information. This new technique, which controls... Read more
“Using such an approach could make solar energy harvesting and optoelectronic devices much better.” Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a new mechanism for extr... Read more
They said it could be done and now they’ve done it. What’s more, they did it with a GRIN. A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley... Read more