Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics. These include photonic and quantum systems that could advance imaging, ...

Transistor lasers represent a unique integration of semiconductor light sources with transistor functionalities, enabling both high-speed optical emission and electronic amplification in a single ...

Researchers in Switzerland have made the world's smallest optical transistor ever from a single dye molecule. The device, which works by weakening or amplifying a "source" laser beam depending on the ...

Optoelectronics, the use of electronic devices for the detection and control of light, has become a preferred means for broadband and transoceanic communication networks. Below is a sneak peek at the ...

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Researchers have developed a new optical computing material from photon avalanching nanoparticles. A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, ...

A layered transistor design combines light detection optical memory and neuromorphic processing in one unit offering compact and efficient artificial vision hardware. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Artificial ...

(Nanowerk News) Current computer systems represent bits of information, the 1's and 0's of binary code, with electricity. Circuit elements, such as transistors, operate on these electric signals, ...

A nanostructure made of silver and an atomically thin semiconductor layer can be turned into an ultrafast switching mirror ...

< Moritz Gittinger (left) and Daniel Timmer stand in front of the experiment that the study is based o ... Copyright: ...