Visible light travels in electromagnetic waves, which we see as the colors of the rainbow. Different colors have different wavelengths of light. Violet and blue have the shortest wavelengths, whereas ...

It's not easy being green. Scientists for years have made small red and blue lasers, but other colors, including green, have been a challenge. A team has now filled this technology gap by creating ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of scientific and industrial applications. From creating stupendously accurate clocks ...

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first ...

New research has achieved a significant breakthrough in color switching for nanocrystals, unlocking exciting possibilities for a simple, energy efficient display design and for tunable light sources ...