If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer, or internet connection, you’ve encountered the personal experience of hitting a limit of technology. But there might be help on the way. Over ...

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics. These include photonic and quantum systems that could advance imaging, ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have devised a novel method to construct valley transistors in two-dimensional materials using brief light pulses, bringing ...

A research team from Skoltech and Bergische Universität Wuppertal in Germany has created a universal NOR logical element (from NOT—a negation operator and OR—a disjunction operator). According to the ...

If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer, or internet connection, you’ve encountered the personal experience of hitting a limit of technology. But there might be help on the way. Over ...

Bill Gates is backing a bold bet that the next leap in computing power will not come from squeezing more transistors onto silicon, but from replacing electrons with light. The startup Neurophos is ...

Neurophos co-founder Andrew Traverso works on an optics experiment in the lab. (Neurophos Photo) A semi-stealthy startup called Neurophos says it’s raised $7 million in seed funding to support the ...

If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer or internet connection, you’ve encountered the personal experience of hitting a limit of technology. But there might be help on the way. Over the ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Vienna say they have created an optical transistor which takes advantage of the Faraday Effect. Through the Faraday Effect, the polarisation of light can be ...

Today, almost all information processing is performed using electronic logic circuits operating at several gigahertz frequency. All-optical logic holds the promise to allow for up to three orders of ...

While many research efforts are underway to develop active devices that can function in the challenging terahertz spectrum, others are leapfrogging to try to get some devices operate into the ...