by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 18, 2022 | Optics & Photonics, PHYS.ORG, Physics
Topological photonics is a rapidly evolving area of research that focuses on the design of photonic lattices where the behavior of light is inspired from the physics of topological insulators. While most studies in this area presented photonic systems with linear...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 18, 2022 | Energy & Green Tech, TECHXPLORE
In recent years, engineers worldwide have been developing various new technologies to generate and store energy more sustainably. These technologies include solar or photovoltaic cells, electrical devices that can convert the light from the sun into electricity.
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 3, 2022 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
When adult humans and animals severely injure their spinal cord, they become irreversibly paralyzed and are no longer able to move body parts controlled by the section of the spinal cord below their lesion. To counteract the damage done by the injury, doctors often...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 3, 2022 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
Autonomous mobile robots are already being tested and used for such applications as the delivery of parcels, surveillance, search and rescue missions, planetary/space exploration, and the monitoring of the environment. For these robots to successfully complete their...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Jun 3, 2022 | Optics & Photonics, PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
When it is free in cold space, a molecule will spontaneously cool down by slowing its rotation and losing rotational energy in quantum transitions. Physicists have shown that this rotational cooling process can be accelerated, slowed down and even inverted by the...
