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  1. Lingnan Scholar From The School Of Interdisciplinary Studies Co-Creates Breakthrough Strategy For Highly Efficient And Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells - Published In Nature 11/12/2025

    Perovskite solar cells (PSCs), known for their high efficiency and low manufacturing costs, are considered a revolutionary photovoltaic (PV) technology that can further reduce the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE), thus promoting the development of green and renewable energy technology in order to reach our carbon reduction goals.

  2. Light Causes Atomic Layers To Do The Twist 11/12/2025

    A pulse of light sets the tempo in the material.

  3. Researchers Discover Ultrafast Light-Driven Electron Slide Effect 11/12/2025

    Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the University of Rostock have discovered a groundbreaking effect in which electrons are strongly accelerated by just a single oscillation of a laser pulse.

  4. Tower Semiconductor Announces New CPO Foundry Technology Available On Tower's Leading Sipho And EIC Optical Platforms 11/12/2025

    Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), a leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, today announced the expansion of its existing, mature 300mm wafer bonding technology, originally developed and in mass production for stacked BSI image sensors, to enable heterogeneous 3D-IC integration across its industry-leading Silicon Photonics (SiPho) and SiGe BiCMOS processes, including full support by Cadence design tools for the stacked platform technology.

  5. Scientists Make Dark Exciton States Shine, Unlocking New Frontiers For Nanotechnology 11/12/2025

    A research team at the City University of New York and the University of Texas at Austin has discovered a way to make previously hidden states of light, known as dark excitons, shine brightly, and control their emission at the nanoscale.

  6. Red Lasers Grown On Silicon Chips Could Power The Next Generation Of Quantum And Sensing Technologies 11/11/2025

    Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and MIT Lincoln Laboratory have, for the first time, demonstrated visible red lasers grown directly inside a silicon nitride photonic chip—a type of microchip that guides light rather than electricity.

  7. PINovAlign - Cost-Optimized, High-Speed Fiber-Alignment System For Silicon Photonics 11/11/2025

    PI (Physik Instrumente) offers a new 6-axis variant of its successful F-141 PINovAlign automated fiber alignment system.

  8. Photonics Start-Ups Powering Europe's Innovation 11/11/2025

    New data from Photonics21 shows Europe’s photonics start-up scene is accelerating, with 240 companies newly identified since 2024 and 556 active firms now tracked across the continent.

  9. POET Technologies And Quantum Computing Inc. To Co-Develop 3.2 Tbps Optical Engines For CPO And Next-Gen AI Connectivity 11/11/2025

     POET Technologies Inc. ("POET" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: POET), a leader in the design and implementation of highly-integrated optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, and Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) (NASDAQ: QUBT), an innovative integrated photonics and quantum optics technology company, today announced a strategic collaboration to develop 400G/Lane thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) modulator-based 3.2Tbps engines that will be designed to lead the next era of computing.

  10. PolyU Research Drives Commercialisation Of Energy-Efficient Solar Cell Technology Towards 40% Efficiency Milestone 11/10/2025

    Third-generation solar cell technology is advancing rapidly.