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Bend as you please

Geometry is key to the optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles. Except when it isn’t.

iSCAT for all

Scientists from Graz and Wien develop simulation software for interferometric scattering microscopy

Quantum research: Images provide a better understanding of light and matter

An international team of researchers has been able to take photos of a special specimen from the world of quantum research for the first time: the exciton. The findings are to be used to generate even more electricity from sunlight using innovative photovoltaic systems.

Mie in a cylinder

Special functions beat ray-tracing: a problem in optics that can be (just barely) solved analytically

Smallest Kandinsky in the world

Quantum cinema premiered

Successful start of ERC-project “Orbital Cinema” with a publication on photoemission from excitons.

Targeting Nanostructures: Heptacene and its Versatility

On nanometer-patterned templates, the electronic properties of long-chain organic semiconductors can be deliberately tailored.

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Super scattering: Physicists at the University of Graz overcome the limit of light scattering at the nanoscale

Being able to control light at the nanoscale is a prerequisite for many technological and scientific applications in telecommunications, sensing or…

Spin me round

Ein spezieller, metall-organischer Komplex kann sich nicht entscheiden, welchen Spinzustand er auf einer Kupfer-Oberfläche einnehmen soll.

Quantum [Un]Speakables

Ein neues Lehrbuch zur Quantenmechanik wurde speziell für das Lehramt Physik konzipiert.

Impressive

New tutorial on color appearance of plasmonic metasurfaces

Licht im Luftloch

Innovative Methode der Nano-Optik eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten für Sensorik und Halbleiter-Industrie

How to confine light in air?

This question is addressed by Thomas Weiss and colleagues from the University of Stuttgart and the Australian National University in the article…

Momentum Matters

A publication highlighted by the Nature Communications Editors’ explains the role of the electrons’ momenta on chemical bonding.