The Stanford team created a metasurface from a polymer previously used in solar panels and printable electronics. They found ...

An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

Cities can be obstacle courses for communications signals. A radio signal must travel from a cell phone to a router to a cell tower, and onward to its recipient — all while bouncing between walls, ...

Researchers use large language models to streamline nanoscopic material design for advanced optical systems like camera ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Researchers have designed and demonstrated a new optical component that could significantly enhance the brightness and image quality of augmented reality (AR) glasses. The advance brings AR glasses a ...

Metasurfaces are highly versatile for manipulating the amplitude, phase, or polarization of light. During the last decade, metasurfaces have been proposed for a vast range of applications — from ...

Penn State researchers use large language models to streamline metasurface design, significantly reducing the time and ...

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the Max Planck Institute have developed a way to produce a web of quantum entangled photons using a far more simple setup than usual. The key is a ...