A research team led by SUTD has created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics.

Ancient Roman “wow glass” has photonic crystal patina forged over centuries Precise hierarchical molecular self-assembly formed so-called "Bragg stack" reflectors.

Engineers have developed the first room-temperature, eye-safe, photopumped PCSEL by embedding silicon dioxide into photonic ...

Breakthrough in laser-chip integration could streamline photonic chip manufacturing and unlock scalable data center ...

European researchers are developing quantum computers using light and glass, in a collaboration that promises breakthroughs in computing power, battery technology and scientific discovery.

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

Photonic crystal This sample of Roman glass is at the Center of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Venice. (Courtesy:CCHT-IIT/National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia/Italian Ministry of Culture) A ...

Some 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, glass vessels carrying wine or water, or perhaps an exotic perfumes, tumble from a table in a marketplace, and shatter to pieces on the street. As centuries ...

Dec 27, 2023: New technique unlocks tunable plasmonics in promising photonic glass (Nanowerk News) Artisans have long marveled at vivid red colors produced by gold nanoparticles scattered within ...

The tiny spheres self-assembled into a layer called a photonic glass, which made the solar cells appear red, green, or blue depending on the microspheres’ size.

Ephos, a startup building glass-based photonic chips, has raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round and is opening a research and manufacturing plant in Italy. It will use the proceeds of the ...