Photonic systems are quickly gaining traction in many emerging applications, including optical communications, lidar sensing, and medical imaging. However, the widespread adoption of photonics in ...

Springtime measurements in a Helsinki street canyon show that coarse road-dust particles can inflate urban light absorption readings by up to 41 percent, complicating black carbon monitoring and ...

Scientists from University of Regensburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Moscow institute of Physics and Technology, and University of Kansas have discovered abnormally strong light absorption ...

Engineers have achieved a power conversion efficiency of 23.50% in a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell built with a special textured anti-reflective coating (ARC) polymeric film. A research team, ...

Field measurements of freshly emitted Saharan dust in Morocco show that assumed particle shape can change the retrieved light ...

New research reveals the core structure of the light-harvesting antenna of cyanobacteria or blue-green algae -- including key features that both collect energy and block excess light absorption.