Photonic crystals move into new areas
Photonic quasicrystals and table-top accelerators are the latest breakthroughs for these remarkable materials
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Fingernails store personal information
Japanese researchers are using femtosecond laser pulses to write data into human fingernails
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Spontaneous improvements on the horizon
Controlling the spontaneous emission of light could improve the performance of solar cells, LEDs and other devices
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Lens makers go flat out
Polymers offer new way to make variable focus devices
Superlens breakthrough
Physicists have beaten the diffraction limit of light
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Negative refraction goes optical
New results could help make a superlens
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Photonic crystals come under the microscope
Fibre-based technique sheds new light on the details of photonic band structures
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Phononic crystals go hypersonic
New materials could control light and sound at the same time
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Photonic crystal slows down light
Two-dimensional array of tiny cavities can reduce group velocities
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Total reflection doubles up
French physicists follow in the footsteps of Newton and Wigner
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