Advancements in structured illumination and computational imaging are revolutionizing semiconductor wafer inspection, ...

Chemists have developed a new model to predict the optical properties of non-conducting ultra-fine particles. UBC chemists have developed a new model to predict the optical properties of ...

Raman and infrared spectroscopies are important tools for chemical analysis at the molecular level, providing key information such as the chemical bonding of a system to be measured. However, Raman ...

Circularly polarized light exhibits promising applications in future displays and photonic technologies. Traditionally, circularly polarized light is converted from unpolarized light by the linear ...

Crystalline arsenic trisulfide shows record photorefractive response and can be laser-patterned at 500-nm resolution without ...

Microscopic particles are being coaxed by engineers to assemble themselves into larger crystalline structures by the use of varying concentrations of microscopic particles and magnetic fields.

(Nanowerk News) Imec has successfully fabricated crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells including 2D periodic photonic nanostructures made with nano-imprint lithography. The result was an improvement ...

Structured laser light has already opened up various different applications: it allows for precise material machining, trapping, manipulating or defined movement of small particles or cell ...