Researchers demonstrated a new approach to fabricate large-scale, complex nano-architectures of refractory plasmonic transition metal nitrides.
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Combining Fluorescence and Electron Microscopy for 3D Cell Imaging
Combining the high-throughput and large scale analysis of fluorescence microscopy with the enhanced resolution capabilities of electron microscopy can allow imaging of cellular interactions and mechanisms without being limited by resolution.
Improving Avalanche Photodiodes – Quantum Dots do the Trick
An avalanche photodiode design with a quantum dot multiplication structure attains a high maximum gain factor and a superior gain noise performance.
A Bright Future for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Compounds
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF)-type compounds have potential to become high-efficiency-solid-state lighting technologies in the future.
Solvent is the Key to Making Perovskite Nanosheets
The synthesis of ultrathin 2D nanosheets (NSs) remains a significant challenge for perovskite materials. Now, researchers have demonstrated a facile crystallization method for the synthesis of free-standing 2D phenylethylammonium lead halide NSs.
Improving CIGSe Solar Cells with Nanophotonics
A nanophotonic approach makes ultrathin CIGSe solar cells with high efficiencies possible.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – March 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
High Throughput and High Content Imaging: The Special Issue Returns
The recently published Part II Special Issue on High Throughput and High Content Imaging and Cellular Informatics.
Microlenses from Organic Dyes
Researchers from EMPA, the Swiss Federal Institute for Science and Technology, present light scattering enhancement at the absorption edge in dewetting droplets of cyanine dyes.
Blue, Blue, Stable Optical Blue…
An international team suggest that coordination network materials, in particular MOFs, will be a useful platform for low-threshold lasers for diverse applications.
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