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A New Metasurface Model Shows Potential to Control Acoustic Wave Reflection

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2018 — An international team of researchers showed how a nonlinear elastic metasurface could convert a wave’s fundamental frequency to its second harmonic. […]

A Paperlike LCD — Thin, Flexible, Tough and Cheap

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 28, 2018 — Optoelectronic engineers in China and Hong Kong have manufactured a special type of liquid crystal display (LCD) that is paper-thin, flexible, […]

The Future of Photonics Using Quantum Dots

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2018 — Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crisscross the globe and package everything from financial data to cat videos into light. But […]

Exploring the Thermoelectric Properties of Tin Selenide Nanostructures

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2018 — Single crystal tin selenide (SnSe) is a semiconductor and an ideal thermoelectric material; it can directly convert waste heat to electrical […]

Taming Chaos: Calculating Probability in Complex Systems

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2018 — Daily weather patterns, brain activity on an EEG (electroencephalogram) and heartbeats on an EKG (electrocardiogram) each generate lines of complex data. […]

The Search for Dark Matter Widens

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2018 — Astronomers have observed that galaxies rotate with such great speed they should be torn apart, yet they are not. It is […]

Designing Diamonds for Medical Imaging Technologies

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2018 — Japanese researchers have optimized the design of laboratory-grown, synthetic diamonds. This brings the new technology one step closer to enhancing biosensing […]

The View from Inside Supersonic Combustion

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — In a jet engine, the flow of air is slowed down to increase the temperature and pressure for combustion — burning […]

Measuring Electrical Conductance Across A Single Molecule

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — When noble metals, like gold, are treated with an aliphatic thiol, like alkanethiol, a uniform monolayer — a layer only one […]