If you walk across the open yard in front of the Physics, Math and Astronomy building at the University of Texas at Austin, ...

Most machines that grow atom-thin films top out around 2,000 Kelvin. That temperature ceiling locks researchers out of an ...

Thin films might not come up in conversation every day, but they are all around us. Take the metallic plastic films of chip ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

A group of scientists created "slits" in time, allowing them to send light through the slits in a twist on an experiment first run over 200 years ago. In the original experiment, scientists sent light ...

Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that ...

Engineering and laser company Trumpf, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT), and the Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems at the Freie Universität Berlin are working together to ...

Lasers, devices that emit intense beams of coherent light in specific directions, are widely used in research settings and are central components of various technologies, including optical clocks (i.e ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It wasn’t so long ago that I was in graduate ...

Photon Design, a global provider of photonic simulation CAD software, has partnered with Cardiff University to deliver a ...