A multi-institutional team has created atomic optical antennas in solids. The team used germanium vacancy centers in diamonds to create an optical energy enhancement of six orders of magnitude, a ...

Just as an antenna interacts with radio waves, light interacts with metallic nanostructures. Therefore, understanding how a ...

(Nanowerk News) In order to better understand fundamental processes in life science at the molecular level, the precise observation of single molecule dynamics is of utmost interest. However, current ...

Milan, 8 April 2025 - Development of a new type of optical receiver, able to restore chaotic signals in free-space optical communication links distorted by atmospheric turbulence. By use of a system ...

A paper published in <em>Nature</em> this week details how researchers have taken a common antenna design to the the nanoscale level. "The design proved to be popular ...

Physicists present a nanometer-sized light antenna with electrically modulated surface properties -- a breakthrough that could pave the way for faster computer chips. Physicists from Würzburg present ...

Artist's impression of an electrically contacted optical antenna (left) and the quantum mechanical distribution of its surface electrons. The normal distribution is shown in yellow, while the change ...