Pyramid powers polarizing light source using quantum dots
Method could be used to develop energy-saving LCD screens and for quantum cryptography
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Room-temperature quantum dots emit single photons
Nanocrystals might be ideal for future quantum-information processors
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Accelerating science and technology at the Cockcroft Institute
Looking forward to a UK-based free-electron laser
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Ultrafast phase measurements could boost optical computing
New device replaces unwieldy vacuum chambers
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The world of physics in 2014
Find out more about the key physics events of the coming year – and those we predict might happen
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Shedding new light on old art
Martin Fischer shows the benefits for the art world of the laser-based technique of pump–probe microscopy
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Etched glass could create table-top particle accelerators
Chip-based devices fire lasers at glass coated with gratings
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Physicists create ‘molecules’ of light
Ultracold atomic gas binds pairs of photons together
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Scanning tunnelling microscopy and infrared spectroscopy join forces
New technique could boost our understanding of surfaces
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LCDs enter the fast lane
Subtle effect speeds up liquid-crystal switching by a factor of a million
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