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  1. Light-Controlled Switches Get A Glow Up 8/12/2026

    Bistable molecular switches with turn-ON fluorescence and other controllable properties bring exciting possibilities for future molecular electronics, data storage, and more.

  2. Researchers Help Unlock A More Versatile Future For Quantum Computing 8/12/2026

    Researchers at Queen Mary University of London, Imperial College and University of Oxford have helped develop a new architecture that could overcome one of the biggest obstacles preventing photonic quantum computers from reaching their full potential.

  3. New £8M Project Aims To Take Ultra-Stable Lasers Beyond The Laboratory 8/12/2026

    Technologies that help people navigate, communicate and measure time with extraordinary precision could be transformed by a major new research programme at the University of Strathclyde.

  4. The Optical Glow Of Quantum Crystals 8/11/2026

    Researchers at the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new method to reveal the collective motion of electrons in one of the most elusive states of matter: the Wigner crystal.

  5. Light On The Move: ME Researchers Create Microscopic Particles That Steer Light 8/11/2026

    Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering within the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have developed a new class of microscopic particles that can swim through liquid and redirect light on command, combining mobility and sophisticated optical control in a single device.

  6. International Conference Brings Metamaterials And Nanophotonics To Umeå 8/11/2026

    METAmeet 2026 gathered leading researchers in light–matter interactions at the nanoscale for three days of presentations, discussions and networking.

  7. OpenLight And Tower Semiconductor Expand PH18DA Photonics Ecosystem To Accelerate Photonic IC Development 8/11/2026

    OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous III‑V‑on‑silicon photonic integration and custom Photonic Application‑Specific Integrated Circuits (PASICs), and Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), the leading foundry for high-value analog semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of OpenLight’s photonic Process Design Kit (PDK) for Tower Semiconductor’s PH18DA indium phosphide (InP)-on-silicon photonics platform in Cadence’s electronic design automation (EDA) tools.

  8. X-Rays: Beyond The Nobel Prize Limit 8/11/2026

    An experiment jointly performed by teams at University of California San Diego and TU Wien has discovered a new quantum regime of coherent X-ray generation with higher energies than they should be able to reach according to the conventional rules.

  9. World's First Perovskite Laser Diode Created By Russian Scientists 8/10/2026

    Researchers from ITMO University, Skoltech, and HSE University have developed the first electrically powered perovskite laser that requires no additional external lighting from another laser or a powerful lamp; instead, it can be directly connected to a power source like a regular LED.

  10. FAU LMQ Research Spotlight: Harnessing Fibonacci Patterns To Engineer Light-Matter Interactions 8/10/2026

    Controlling how artificial atoms “talk” to each other is important for building advanced quantum technologies.