Silica-coated gold nanorods with absorption at precisely 780 nm cause action potentials in nerve cells when exposed to laser light.
Operating simplicity in industrial microscopy at EUSPEN
Olympus will present its innovative range of opto-digital microscopy systems at the EUSPEN conference.
March highlights from physica status solidi
RRAMs, magnetic microwires, and spin Hall effects – these and more in our March’s physics highlights.
Water disassociation experiments could improve catalysis
EPFL scientists use lasers to determine for the first time how specific vibrations in a water molecule affect its ability to dissociate.
Sandia labs launches new long-term project to fill materials behaviour gaps
Long-term, multidisciplinary project called Predicting Performance Margins aims to link variability in materials’ properties with how actual parts perform.
Photonics Europe 2014: the highlights
A report from the 2014 Photonics Europe meeting, held in Brussels, Belgium from the 14th to the 17th of April.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for March 2014
We present the most downloaded papers of the pss journal family from March 2014.
Optical Parametric Oscillator
Widely tunable, easy-to-operate single source “C-Wave” for applications such as spectroscopy, quantum optics and photochemistry. It was awarded with the Photonics West Prism-Award 2014.
February highlights from physica status solidi
The latest selection of recent top articles in the physica status solidi journals.
Transverse mode localization in 3D deterministic aperiodic structures
Three-dimensional deterministic aperiodic structures are realized for the first time and studied with respect to their optical properties.