In this episode of Photonics Hot List:
Gold is a key component for a lot of modern technologies, including smartphones and satellites. And now, researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have discovered that changing its physical structure at the nanoscale can fundamentally enhance optical and electronic properties and behaviors.
Business news roundup: A $6 billion multiyear agreement between Corning and Meta will accelerate the expansion of advanced U.S.-based data centers. And in the U.K., photonic computing startup Optalysys has raised £23 million in series A funding for advancing technology and expanding into the U.S.
Designed by a team at the City University of New York, a new nonlinear metasurface could someday make possible compact chips that generate visible light with high efficiency and allow control of the direction of the light’s emission.