Optical materials news, January 2020

Luminescent memory material remembers where it was hit

Mechanoluminescent material visualizes the location of impacts

29 January 2020Laurie Donaldson

Researchers have shown how a simple layered material transforms into a composite material with a 3D structure when it freezes around a template.

28 January 2020

Applying an AC electric field to a piezoelectric crystal can turn it transparent by realigning its crystalline domains.

28 January 2020

A new DNA-programmable nanofabrication platform can organize and assemble a variety of different nanomaterials in the same prescribed ways.

23 January 2020

The properties of perovskites can be controlled with strain engineering by growing thin films on substrates with different compositions.

20 January 2020

For the first time, researchers have been able to grow, image with atomic resolution and investigate the properties of 2D amorphous carbon.

17 January 2020

Second-order nonlinear optical effects can be induced in a titanium dioxide slab by covering it in gold triangles.

15 January 2020

Researchers have used a ‘multi-messenger’ approach to probe the properties of quantum materials at nanoscale resolutions.

14 January 2020

For the first time, scientists have managed to grow aluminum-based semiconductors for solar cells using hydride vapor phase epitaxy.

10 January 2020

2019 Materials Today Innovation Award recognizes the development of high-quality growth methods for III-V compound semiconductor materials

8 January 2020Cordelia Sealy

Turning natural atomic flaws inside diamond anvils into quantum sensors offers a novel way to study the effects of pressure on materials.

3 January 2020

2 January 2020Joe D'angelo

New color fabric approach that helps control its spread of disease

2 January 2020Laurie Donaldson

Researchers have found that opaque silicon solar cells can be made transparent by simply punching lots of tiny holes into them.

1 January 2020