Semiconductor materials play an important part in developing nanophotonic technologies. Semiconductors are used for generating controllable photons as well as for confining and exploiting them for ...

New technologies aim to produce high-purity synthetic crystals that become excellent semiconductors when doped with impurities as electron donors or acceptors of other elements. Researchers have now ...

Highly enhanced UV absorption and light emission of monolayer WS2 through hybridization with Ti2N MXene quantum dots and g-C3N4 quantum dots This work represents a significant advancement in the field ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Photonic systems are quickly gaining traction in many emerging applications, including optical communications, lidar sensing, and medical imaging. However, the widespread adoption of photonics in ...

UC Davis engineers develop a new technique to enhance the ability of silicon to absorb infrared light. Photon-trapping micro- and nano-sized holes in silicon make normally incident light bend by ...

From transition metal dichalcogenides to boron nitride and beyond, these ultrathin systems have found relevance in fields ranging from photonics to quantum computing. Yet despite this momentum, the ...

OKI (TOKYO: 6703) has successfully developed Tiling crystal film bonding (CFB; Note 1) technology using its proprietary CFB technology. This technology makes possible the heterogeneous integration of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) UCI-led research reveals that the optical properties of materials can be dramatically enhanced – not by changing the materials themselves, but by giving the light new properties.

Japanese firm Nuvoton Technology has started mass production of its high-power UV semiconductor laser (379 nm, 1.0 W), which ...