Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre ...

Excitons—bound pairs of electrons and an electron hole—are quasiparticles that can arise in solids. While so-called "bright" ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The first heat wave of the summer arrives in Southern California this week, bringing triple-digit heat to many areas. Temperatures will rise to the 90s and triple-digits when ...

A scheme for the remote sensing of terahertz waves over distances of tens of metres could have important applications in security and biology. Xi-Cheng Zhang from the Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

We directly demonstrate, for the first time, the small pixel effect in an amorphous photoconductor by measuring the intrinsic transient response of an amorphous selenium (a-Se) photoconductor pixel of ...

We report on the first integrated superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) that are optimised for short-wave infrared (SWIR) photons at 2.1μm.