Materials Processing News

31. Israeli Researchers Successfully Hide Optical Chip Under 'Cloak Of Invisibility' 11/16/2017

    Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) are proposing a new method to obscure an optical chip by bending light around the object. This could be achieved by manipulating waves in the near field region (such as surface plasmons) of a metamaterial surface (a metasurface) on an integrated photonic structure.

32. MIT Researchers Use Chalcogenides To Stretch And Integrate Photonic Devices 11/9/2017

    Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are using chalcogenide glasses to produce flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) that can stretch or conform to the shape of an object or structure without damage, and to better integrate two-dimensional (2D) materials with conventional semiconductor circuits.

33. Metal-Silicone Microstructures Could Enable New Types Of Flexible Optical And Electrical Devices 11/1/2017

    For the first time, researchers have used a single-step, laser-based method to produce small, precise hybrid microstructures of silver and flexible silicone.

34. Terahertz Spectroscopy Now Possible At The Nanoscale 10/23/2017

    Researchers at Brown University have developed a modified method of laser terahertz emission microscopy (LTEM) to image, for the first time, individual nanostructures of materials being analyzed.

35. Extraordinarily Strong Nonlinear Optical Graphene-Like Material Could Renovate Nonlinear Photonics 10/23/2017

    Nonlinear optics is a key enabling technology of our modern society, such as in imaging and high-speed data communication.

36. Flexible Hybrid Electronics Advancing, Spurred By Dual-Use Technology Development 7/17/2017

    Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) is a category of microelectronics using novel materials with stretchable, conformable, and flexible form factors. FHE enables wearables, medical Internet of Things (IoT) applications, defense applications, and more by shifting from electronics based on rigid and fragile circuit boards to flexible electronics components mounted on substrates, such as plastics and textiles.

37. Ultrashort-Pulse Fiber Laser Reaches Unprecedented Performance At Cornell 6/27/2017

    Cornell University researchers have engineered a new kind of environmentally-stable fiber laser that generates high-power ultrashort light pulses, opening new possibilities and applications for the fiber source. By Daryl Lovell

38. BYU Researchers Develop Flexible Glass For Microfluidic Nanodevices 3/27/2017

    Researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) have developed a new method to fabricate flexible nano-scale membranes using surface micromachining and silica thin films. 

39. Photonic Doping Makes Metamaterials Fabrication Easier 3/13/2017

    University of Pennsylvania engineers have developed a new technique called photonic doping to design and more easily fabricate electromagnetic metamaterials.

40. Novel 2D Light Source Generates Photon Pairs 10/31/2016

    Physicists from Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (JMU) have designed a new light source based on transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers that emit photon pairs, which makes it suitable to carry encrypted information.