Optical materials news, February 2019

Perspectives on the materials research landscape

Two new reports, now available for download.

Researchers have come up with a way for growing nanowire networks in a highly controlled and fully reproducible manner on silicon semiconductors.

A boost of vitamin C can help small gold nanorods grow into long gold nanowires for use in sensing, diagnostic and imaging applications.

Scientists have trapped electrons in defects on sheets of hexagonal boron nitride and used their interaction with light to probe their quantum states.

Scientists have enhanced the catalytic activity of plasmonic nanoparticles by finding a way to encapsulate them in a metal-organic framework.

antimony-doped tin oxide nanoparticles improve environmental durability and heat retaining properties of transparent wood

Researchers have uncovered the mechanisms that lead to improved performance when alkali metal is added to traditional perovskites.

new type of electric field effect can control light emission from perovskite devices

Researchers have developed a way to incorporate high-k dielectrics into assemblies of 2D materials known as heterostructures.

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