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New approach uses light instead of robots to assemble electronic components
An international team of researchers has developed a new light-based manipulation method that could one day be used to mass produce...
Nov 7, 20174 min read
Nanoscale ‘abacus’ uses pulses of light instead of wooden beads to perform calculations
The quest to develop ever-faster and more powerful computers has led to one of the most rudimentary methods of counting being given a...
Nov 2, 20172 min read
Bridging the terahertz gap
Optical frequency combs are widely-used, high-precision tools for measuring and detecting different frequencies -- a.k.a. colors -- of...
Oct 17, 20173 min read
Vibrating nanoparticles interact
Like a tuning fork struck with a mallet, tiny gold nanodisks can be made to vibrate at resonant frequencies when struck by light. In new...
Oct 16, 20173 min read
A zero-index waveguide
In 2015, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed the first on-chip...
Oct 10, 20173 min read
Straining the memory: Prototype strain engineered materials are the future of data storage
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information...
Sep 20, 20172 min read
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