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Optical materials news, May 2015

Research to improve the world.

29 May 2015Zara Preston
Slinky lens slashes resolution limits

Fan-shaped hyperlens out set to slash resolution limits.

27 May 2015Nina Notman

26 May 2015

Engineers and physicists have shown how liquid crystals can be employed to create compound lenses similar to those found in nature.

26 May 2015

7 May 2015

Researchers have shown that defects on an atomically thin semiconductor can produce light-emitting quantum dots.

6 May 2015

Researchers have unveiled an important step in the conversion of light into storable energy.

1 May 2015

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