(Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical metasurfaces are sub-wavelength nanopatterned layers that interact strongly with light, thus dramatically altering the light properties over a sub-wavelength thickness.

Design of the laser speckle exposure system. Schematic representation of the laser speckle exposure system, comprising the UV laser, shutter, beam expander, mirror, convex lens, engineering diffuser, ...

Image credit: Jens Bauer / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Using the established 3D laser lithography process called “two-photon direct laser writing” (enables printing resolutions on the order of ...

What does it take to make your own integrated circuits at home? It’s a question that relatively few intrepid hackers have tried to answer, and the answer is usually something along the lines of “a lot ...

A team of scientists from research center ICFO and photonics materials manufacturer Corning has developed a new method for fabricating anti-reflective (AR) surfaces – achieved through nano-structured ...

Portland, Ore. – A soft-lithography technique that harnesses deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as a self-reproducing template is being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Supramolecular ...