Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of a gas in which electrons are no longer bound to atoms, which allows ...

Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland calls her work a ‘laser hammer’, a breakthrough that delivers energy in powerful bursts. In ...

Van der Waals (vdW) materials are promising building blocks for next-generation nanophotonics because of their atomically smooth surfaces, diverse ...

The new NIST photonics chip is a bit like a layer cake. NIST physicists Papp and Grant Brodnik, along with colleagues, started with a standard wafer of silicon coated with silicon dioxide (glass) and ...

In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three ...