A new technology that generates tiny, earthquake-like effects could shake up the wireless device industry with smaller, less ...

Engineers have created a device that generates incredibly tiny, earthquake-like vibrations on a microchip—and it could transform future electronics. Using a new kind of “phonon laser,” the team can ...

Engineers have learned how to create tiny earthquakes on a microchip—and it could change how smartphones are built. Engineers ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a surface acoustic wave phonon laser, a single-chip device that ...

Engineers have turned the physics of earthquakes into a tool for shrinking and supercharging the chips inside phones and ...

The static nature of conventional phonon polaritonic crystals (PoCs) limits their use in adaptive nanophotonics. Now, ...

Rochester researchers are trapping nanoparticle-sized silica beads in an optical tweezer in a series of experiments that could shed new light on the fundamental properties of lasers – and perhaps lead ...

Polaritons—hybrid light-matter particles—allow light to be squeezed into deep subwavelength scales, holding great promise for ultra-compact photonic ...