NEWS: Silicon photonics progress exceeds wildest expectations Silicon photonics is reaching unexpected applications, way beyond the data center applications, solving lidar and neuroscience challenges and more.... read more |
NEWS: ELI - Extreme Light Infrastructure A European ESFRI project for the investigation of light-matter interactions at highest intensities and shortest time scales... read more |
NEWS: Bob Widlar – The Life of an Engineering Legend Bob Widlar wasn’t just a good hardware engineer; he was a legendary one. Even today, he’s considered one of the most famous hardware engineers to ever live.... read more |
NEWS: Printing images at resolutions of 14,000 dots per inch (dpi) Japanese team takes advantage of light-controlled, stress-induced “crazing” in polymer films to create a novel approach for printing 14,000-dpi images... read more |
NEWS: Nobel prize in chemistry for lithium-ion batteries The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 rewards the development of the lithium-ion battery. This lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles.... read more |
NEWS: Nobel prize in physics for laser physics The inventions being honoured this year have revolutionised laser physics. Extremely small objects and incredibly rapid processes are now being seen in a new light... read more |
NEWS: Winter College on Optics: Quantum Photonics The aim of the Winter College is to offer Ph.D. students and early career researchers training in quantum optics and quantum information... read more |
NEWS: Nobel prize in physics for capturing gravitational waves On 14 September 2015, the universe’s gravitational waves were observed for the very first time. The waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago... read more |