Read article: On-chip nanowire laser delivers on data
Semiconductor nanowire lasers are promising ultracompact light sources for miniaturized optical processing and sensing, but their efficiency is limited by the difficulty of confining light in a struct...
Read article: Squashed quantum dots solve a multi-faceted problem
Facet-selective epitaxy produces colloidal quantum dot lasers with a threshold for continuous-wave lasing that’s seven times lower than previously reported
Read article: Flash Physics: Flower acts as supercapacitor, ORNL head steps down, triboelectricity boosts mass spectrometer
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Read article: New graphene-like material could have a band gap
Mixture of carbon, boron and nitrogen could find use in electronics
Read article: Semiconductor discs could boost night vision
New fabrication technique makes frequency doubling more accessible
Read article: Flash Physics: New solar-energy model, Persis Drell named Stanford provost, gas sensors in a jiffy
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Read article: Flash Physics: Space telescope passes milestone, quantum-cryptography record broken, making gold nanostructures
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Read article: Flash Physics: Designer magnets from 3D printers, creating silicon-germanium glass fibres, towards a space-based gravitational-wave observatory
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Read article: Flash Physics: Ocean tides are magnetic, speedy electrons, new millimetre-wavelength telescope camera
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Read article: Flash Physics: Tiny spheres made from proteins, shape-shifting nuclei, long-lived silicon qubits
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