(Nanowerk Spotlight) Kevlar is a well-known high-strength polymer that, thanks to its excellent mechanical performance, has found a variety of important security applications, from textiles (e.g.

Researchers showed that their optimized direct laser writing approach could create high-resolution line gratings on a glass substrate. These SEM images show line gratings the researchers created using ...

Metal halide perovskites have become well-deserved “star” materials among a variety of semiconductors owing to their excellent optoelectronics properties, such as high photoluminescence (PL) quantum ...

Techniques allowing doctors and clinicians to understand the human heart and how it responds to treatment without embarking on major surgery can involve several different approaches, but none of them ...

Researchers have developed a new way to control and manipulate optical signals by embedding a liquid crystal layer into waveguides created with direct laser writing. The new devices enable ...

Silica nanochannels with diameters of only 30 nm and an aspect ratio of more than 200 recently were created in silica by researchers from China’s Xi’an Jiaotong University. These nanochannels are, ...

A technical paper titled “Freeform direct-write and rewritable photonic integrated circuits in phase-change thin films” was published by researchers at University of Washington, University of Maryland ...

Environmental sensors are a step closer to simultaneously sniffing out multiple gases that could indicate disease or pollution. Researchers combined laser writing and responsive sensor technologies to ...

The last decade has witnessed a huge development in additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing when compared with its counterpart, subtractive manufacturing. AM enables rapid prototyping, ease of ...

Meanwhile, DLW, based on the interaction between light and matter, is an efficient, contactless, mask free, and depth-resolved micro-patterning technique. It is typically performed by coupling a laser ...