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LEDs

Using nanotechnology to enhance the performance of LEDs and other light sources

Technology update

Physicists create new slow-light technique

Electromagnetically induced transparency seen in nuclear system for first time

Nanoshells improve solar cells

Hollow structures trap more light

Making efficient OLEDs for flexible solid-state lighting

Modified graphene anode increases work function and reduces sheet resistance

Frequency doubling with nanocups

Novel structures convert red light into blue

Lab talk

Analysis compares growth mechanisms of Zn-polar ZnO nanowires on O-polar ZnO and on sapphire

Understanding how nanowires grow on different substrates will help developers to optimize the performance of devices such as photovoltaic solar cells, nano-generators and light-emitting diodes

Metallic ferrofluids show optical limiting

Nickel nanofluid with kerosene base displays optical limiting and magnetic field dependent transmission

Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy looks deeper into germanium nano-islands in silicon

Fluorescence spectra with nanosecond temporal resolution reveal charge-recombination dynamics at a glance

Vectorial recipe serves up a Xe'ek of multi-waves

Combined action of metallic nanosystems gives ultrafast all-optical phase modulation