Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Montana State University have now introduced a new photonic system designed to overcome that limitation. Their device combines the 2D semiconductor ...

Manufactured chemicals and materials are necessary for practically every aspect of daily life, from life-saving pharmaceuticals to plastics, fuels and fertilizers. Yet manufacturing these important ...

Imagine a sea of glowing blue lights pulsing to the beat of the music. But instead of glow sticks filled with toxic chemicals, the luminescence comes from living algae, shimmering on demand. In a new ...

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Researchers have developed a light-driven method for creating tiny, high-energy “housane” molecules that are valuable for drug development and materials science. These compact ring-shaped structures ...

That conversion slows the process and increases energy use, reducing the benefits of photonic computing. Using exciton-polaritons, the Penn researchers demonstrated all-light switching while using ...

In their study, the research team described how they used a silver film to generate surface plasmons by exposing the film to low-energy light. As the plasmons propagated across the silver film, they ...