A team of engineers and scientists has shown for the first time that a hard-X-ray cavity can provide net X-ray gain, with ...

Optical waveguides and resonators constitute fundamental building blocks in modern photonics, enabling the tight confinement, routing, and manipulation of light on chip-scale platforms. These ...

Researcher at Fraunhofer THM inserting a wafer into the transfer chamber of a deposition/etching cluster for structuring ...

Silicon carbide is for photonic circuits and quantum devices. Atomic layer processing boosts SiC waveguides and resonators, improving performance.

Rapid and sensitive label-free sensors are needed for many biochemical applications including early diagnostics and prognostics, monitoring food and water quality, chemical threat sensing, and early ...

Quantum technologies, which leverage quantum mechanical effects to process information, could outperform their classical counterparts in some complex and advanced tasks. The development and real-world ...

Resonators are devices that exhibit resonance, a phenomenon where a system oscillates with greater amplitude at specific frequencies. In the context of nanotechnology, resonators are nanoscale ...

Atomic layer processing improves optical performance in SiC photonic devices, crucial for developing efficient quantum ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising material platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and miniaturized solid-state quantum systems. In the ALP-4-SiC project, researchers from the Max Planck ...