Printing with Lasers: Making Electronics Quick and Easy

An optical microscopy image on of the channels in a printed OECT array.

A European research team has made a breakthrough in the printing of organic electronics.

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Fourteen steps to DFT Nirvana

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a versatile and powerful quantum mechanical modeling technique.

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Polymerization Inhibition for 3D Nanolithography

depletion mechanism for STED lithography

The depletion mechanism in a stimulated emission depletion (STED) inspired photoresist for 3D nanolithography has been identified.

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Metal-Containing Molecules for Two-Photon Absorption

NLO dendritic effect

Australian researchers present a divergent synthesis of ruthenium alkynyl dendrimers displaying an NLO dendritic effect.

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Wave Propagation is Under Control: Metamaterials Are Going 3D

A 3D bichiral metamaterial made from SU-8 negative photoresist by two-photon polymerization.

From invisibility cloaks to metatronics – metamaterials might offer a wealth of innovative applications. Prerequisite are 3D metamaterials working in the THz region. Latest developments could initiate a further upswing for this strange seeming kind of matter.

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Low-Power Upconversion in Dye-Doped Polymer Nanoparticles

low-power light upconversion

The fabrication of dye-doped cross-linked rubbery nanoparticles with light upconversion properties even at relatively low power densities has been reported by a Swiss/American research team.

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Optical memory using leaky ferroelectrics?

A schematic of the bismuth ferroite spatially-resolved photodetector showing the diffraction-limited laser raster-scanning the device channel. The inset is a photograph of the device electrodes taken through an optical microscope.

Scientists probe the optoelectric behaviour of bismuth ferrite at the nanoscale and propose a novel ferroelectric-based memory application.

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How do leaves get the most out of sunlight?

by Iwan Gabovitch

Scientists discovered regular distributions of cystoliths occurs in plant leafs that enhance light-aborbing efficiency.

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Making microlasers the flexible way

Optical (above) and photoluminescence (below) images of hemispheres of different diameters

An elegant technique for self-assembling microlasers from droplets is reported in Advanced Optical Materials.

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A Truly 3D Self-Assembled Metamaterial

3D metamaterial using self-assembled block copolymers as template

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK report the fabrication of a truly 3D metamaterial using self-assembly.

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