Particles of twisted light entangled by quantum mechanics provide a novel approach to dense and secure data storage. Holograms that produce 3-D images and serve as security features on credit cards are typically created by laying down patterns with laser light beams. In recent years, physicists have discovered ways to make holograms out of entangled [..]

Many life-saving drugs interact directly with DNA to treat diseases like cancer, but scientists have struggled to understand how and why they work – until now. In a paper, researchers described a new DNA sequencing method to detect where and how small molecule drugs interact with the targeted genome. Understanding how drugs work in the [..]

A team of researchers has developed a system that can direct light and other electromagnetic waves for signal processing without any unwanted signal reflections, building on a breakthrough “anti-laser.” This innovation could advance local area networks, photonics, and other applications. Light in a laser bounces back and forth between two mirrors, passing through an amplifying [..]

Plasmonic metasurfaces, made up of two-dimensional metallic meta-atom arrays, are advantageous because of their ultrathin thicknesses, ease of fabrication, versatile functionality, field confinement beyond the diffraction limit, and superior nonlinearity. Their efficiency, however, is limited due to Ohmic heat loss during resonance. Huygens meta-atoms can break the scattering symmetry and improve transmission efficiency, but transmission [..]

Scientists have determined the mechanism and functional form for the yield of neutrons from a laser-driven source and used it to carry out a neutron resonance analysis much faster than conventional methods. This work may help bring non-invasive testing to more applications in manufacturing and medicine. While most microscopes use photons or electrons to study [..]

According to new research, PET/MRI achieves comparable or superior results to PET/CT for detecting pulmonary malignancies. Based on those findings, experts involved in the study believe that MRI could play a growing role in lung cancer staging and restaging. Although previous research has yielded somewhat contradictory results on the efficacy of the modality for detecting [..]

The wide full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) of the electroluminescence (EL) spectra of OLEDs exhibit flaws as an appropriate light source for fingerprint recognition based on skin reflectance. Although inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have an extremely narrow FWHM, it is difficult to fabricate self-emitting inorganic LED-based displays for mobile smartphones without color filters. A group of researchers improved [..]

Researchers struggle to detect cognition accurately. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is currently used to measure brain activity. However, this method necessitates the patient lying still in a large, noisy, expensive apparatus. A portable and noninvasive brain imaging method is required to understand how the brain works. A group of scientists has created a high-performance [..]

 According to world-leading scientists, super-thin lithium niobate chips made from lithium niobate are set to overtake silicon chips in light-based technologies, with potential applications ranging from remote ripening-fruit detection on Earth to lunar navigation. They claim that artificial crystal is the best platform for these technologies because of its superior performance and recent advances in [..]

A study on microfabrication using additive manufacturing was conducted by researchers, which adds to the emerging paradigm shift of building microstructures with AM to revolutionize device design in fields such as medicine and energy storage. The study describes engineers’ new approach to addressing multiple microfabrication issues in AM and enabling 3D-printed objects as small as [..]

Thanks to advancements in expansion microscopy, unprecedented views of the interiors of cells and other nanoscale structures are now possible. The advances could aid future research in neuroscience, pathology, and other biological and medical fields. Magnify is a universal molecular anchoring strategy for expansion microscopy, according to the paper, which describes new Magnify protocols. Magnify [..]

Ground-state cooling, quantum squeezing, and remote entanglement of mechanical oscillators are just a few of the advances made possible by optomechanics. Pioneering theoretical studies have predicted that optomechanical lattices can access significantly richer physics and novel dynamics, such as quantum collective dynamics and topological phenomena. However, reproducing such devices experimentally under strict control and building [..]

A group of researchers has created a deep learning-based ultrasound hologram generation framework technology that allows them to freely configure the form of focused ultrasound in real time using holograms. It is expected to be a foundational technology in brain stimulation and precision treatment. Ultrasound can treat conditions such as Alzheimer’s, depression, and pain. The [..]

Mushroom farmers are moving their outdoor operations into large greenhouses, shifting environmental factors away from external climates and toward internal microclimates. Environmental monitoring systems are installed in greenhouses to collect microclimate data. No sensor can directly measure mushroom growth to determine when adjustments are needed. Now scientists have come up with a GigE Camera solution. [..]

During the last decade, metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have emerged as a rising star in optoelectronics. Due to the intriguing optoelectronic properties of MHPs, cutting-edge optoelectronic technologies based on MHPs, such as perovskite solar cells (PSCs), light emitting diodes (LEDs), photodetectors (PDs), and lasers, have been leading the prevailing paradigm. Furthermore, MHPs have the advantages [..]

Microelectronics has transformed how we manipulate electricity, allowing for sophisticated electronic products that are now a necessary part of our daily lives. Integrated photonics has transformed how we control light in applications such as data communications, imaging, sensing, and biomedical devices. While near-infrared lasers have made some progress, the visible-light lasers that feed photonic chips [..]

LIBS is a rapidly developed chemical analysis technology for trace element analyses in gases, liquids, and solids. The plasma-grating-induced breakdown spectroscopy technique (GIBS) could overcome the limitations of FIBS. A high-power laser pulse is used in GIBS to elicit short-lived, high-temperature plasma in a sample. As the plasma cools, it emits spectral peaks corresponding to [..]

Polarized light-based processing devices are one million times faster than current technology. Logic gates are the fundamental components of computer processors. Conventional logic gates are electronic and work by shuffling electrons around. On the other hand, researchers have been working on light-based optical logic gates to meet the data processing and transfer requirements of next-generation [..]

Polarimetric images, which use polarizers to selectively reflect the transverse electric (TE) field and transmit the unpolarized incident light’s transverse magnetic (TM) field, can provide information such as shading and surface morphologies. On the other hand, current Infrared polarizers are primarily based on expensive and brittle ceramics with nano-gratings typically fabricated by time- and cost-consuming [..]

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to endometrial carcinoma microscopy images is demonstrated in a new study. The research team provides novel insights that could improve uterine cancer diagnosis and treatment. Researchers used AI to analyze microscopy images of thousands of endometrial carcinoma patients. This model was not a “black box,” but the researchers [..]