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A Metasurface Makes a Tractor Beam
Passing light through a tiny silicon metasurface resulted in a triple-helix solenoid beam, capable of pulling particles toward it. read more
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Lasers Turn Nanoparticles Into Tiny Thermometers
Technique enables super-resolution imaging by suppressing fluorescence from upconverting particles. read more
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Passivation Approach Boosts Staying Power of Perovskite PVs
Group led by Hong Kong and UK scientists proposes a “living passivation” strategy that can heal new material defects in real time as they crop up during operation. read more
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Industry News
Halo Industries Grabs US$80 Million in Series B Funding
Startup will use the new money to help commercialize laser-based process for producing SiC wafer substrates, used in electronics for E-vehicles, renewable energy and more. read more
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Customizable, Light-Activated Nanocarriers
Size-adjustable polymer nanospheres release their encapsulated contents upon irradiation with UV and visible light for targeted drug delivery. read more
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Using Light to Break Down Plastics
Process uses a laser and 2D materials to dispose of non-biodegradable plastics—and recycle them into luminescent carbon dots. read more
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Optical Tweezers Line Up a “Quantum Register”
A team in Germany uses tweezers to trap and manipulate a well-ordered array of atoms in an optical cavity—enabling high-efficiency atom-photon entanglement. read more
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Giant Clams Offer Efficiency Clues for Biorefineries
The light-conversion processes in the mollusks could inspire improved schemes for extracting energy from biomass. read more
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Strontium Lattice Is Now the World's Most Accurate Clock
Having already made the optical device more precise, researchers have now lowered its systematic uncertainty. read more
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Shrinking the Ti:Sapphire Laser
Researchers say their prototype laser on a chip is 10,000 times smaller and 1,000 times less expensive than previous iterations. read more