Editor’s Picks
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High-Speed Microscope Captures Fleeting Brain Signals
3/19/2020
Electrical and chemical signals flash through our brains constantly as we move through the world, but it would take a high-speed camera and a window into the brain to capture their fleeting paths.
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Scientists Develop Safer Lead-Based Perovskite Solar Cell
2/19/2020
Researchers at Northern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, are reporting today (Feb. 19) in the journal Nature on a potential breakthrough in the development of hybrid perovskite solar cells.
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Having An Eye For Colors: Printable Light Sensors
2/19/2020
Cameras, light barriers, and movement sensors have one thing in common: They work with light sensors that are already found in many applications. In future, these sensors might also play an important role in telecommunications, as they enable data transmission via light.
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Mirrored Chip Could Enable Handheld Dark-Field Microscopes
2/24/2020
Do a Google search for dark-field images, and you’ll discover a beautifully detailed world of microscopic organisms set in bright contrast to their midnight-black backdrops.
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Stanford Researchers Shine Light On The Defects Responsible For Messy Behavior In Quantum Materials
2/24/2020
In a future built on quantum technologies, planes and spaceships could be fueled by the momentum of light. Quantum computers will crunch through complex problems spanning chemistry to cryptography with greater speed and energy efficiency than existing processors.
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Army Scientists Create Innovative Quantum Sensor
3/19/2020
A quantum sensor could give Soldiers a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency spectrum, from 0 to 100 GHz, said researchers from the Army.
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5mm Diameter Motor Is Powered Directly With Light
2/19/2020
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, with colleagues from Poland and China used liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a rotary micromotor powered with light.
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Columbia Team Discovers New Way To Control The Phase Of Light Using 2D Materials
2/24/2020
Optical manipulation on the nano-scale, or nanophotonics, has become a critical research area, as researchers seek ways to meet the ever-increasing demand for information processing and communications.
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SPIE.tv Marks 100,000th View Of Optics And Photonics Videos On YouTube
4/12/2012
Views of videos of optics and photonics interviews, lab tours, conference presentations, educational demonstrations, and other features on the SPIE.tv channel on YouTube topped the 100,000 mark today.
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Whispering Light Hears Liquids Talk
6/7/2013
Ever been to a whispering gallery -- a quiet, circular space underneath an old cathedral dome that captures and amplifies sounds as quiet as a whisper? Researchers at the