Light can carry enormous amounts of information at extreme speeds, making photonic technologies promising for the development ...

The technological advancement of optical lenses has long been a significant marker of human scientific achievement. Eyeglasses, telescopes, cameras, and microscopes have all literally and figuratively ...

Recently, a research team from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has employed metasurfaces to fabricate angle-dependent holograms with multiple functions. This technology allows ...

Researchers have developed a new form of programmable “virtual” metasurface that can rapidly control light in ways not ...

Scientists have developed a new type of “virtual” metasurface – capable of controlling light in ways traditional lenses can’t. Discover how this tunable technology could impact optics, microscopy, and ...

Researchers created an ultra-thin optical array that controls photons like bulky quantum devices, offering a scalable path to room-temperature quantum photonics. (Nanowerk News) In the race toward ...

Programmable metasurfaces are ultrathin electromagnetic (EM) interfaces that can dynamically shape the direction, energy ...

Stranger Things fans will be familiar with this scene: Eleven, a girl with telekinetic powers, stares intently at a Coke can. Without physically touching the can, she completely crushes it using her ...

Researchers have designed new metasurfaces using nanoscale techniques inspired by kirigami that could offer a new chip-based way to achieve nanoscale control of light, which could lead to better ...

Harnessing the power of 'phase-change' materials, researchers have demonstrated how reconfigurable metasurfaces -- artificial materials with extraordinary optical properties -- are crucial to the ...