A new atom camera uses one ultracold rubidium atom to map light intensity and polarization with spatial resolution below 100 nanometers.

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense ...

Newly achieved precise control over light emitted from incredibly tiny sources, a few nanometers in size, embedded in two-dimensional materials could lead to remarkably high-resolution monitors and ...

The interactions in photovoltaic materials that convert light into electricity happens in femtoseconds. How fast is that? One femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second­­. To put that in perspective, ...

From left to right, Albert Suceava, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering, Venkatraman Gopalan, a professor of materials science and engineering, and Saugata Sarker, a graduate ...

Nanotechnology represents one of the most transformative fields in modern science, bridging physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to create breakthroughs that redefine how the world works. It ...