Imagine a display that harvests ambient light when it is not actively in use, offsetting some of its own energy consumption.

A nanoparticle-based coating developed at the University of California San Diego can convert more than 90 percent of captured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have developed a new method for light and matter interaction, paving the way for the production of ultrathin silicon ...

A dopant molecule accepts electrons from a chiral perovskite host, enabling visible light absorption while preserving the ...

Researchers have made a discovery that changes what we know about light and materials. They found that engineered achiral (symmetric) materials, called achiral plasmonic metasurfaces, can absorb light ...

Chiral molecules have structures that cannot be superimposed on their mirror image, like left and right hands. Many ...

How do photosynthetic organisms harvest light so efficiently? To help answer this question, researchers have developed an ultrafast transient absorption microscope with sensitivity approaching the ...

Optical microscope image of a representative crystal that possesses centrosymmetry, yet shows differential absorption of circularly polarized light. The crystal is made of lithium, cobalt, selenium ...

When photosynthetic cells absorb light from the sun, packets of energy called photons leap between a series of light-harvesting proteins until they reach the photosynthetic reaction center. There, ...

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have made a discovery that changes what we know about light and materials. They found that engineered achiral (symmetric) materials, called achiral plasmonic ...