Optical materials articles within Nature

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• Article | 15 March 2023

  Photonically active bowtie nanoassemblies with chirality continuum

  Self-limited assembly of 'imperfect' chiral nanoparticles enables formation of bowtie-shaped microparticles with size monodispersity and continuously variable chirality to be used for printing photonically active metasurfaces.

  • Prashant Kumar
  • , Thi Vo
  •  & Nicholas A. Kotov

• Letter | 02 October 2017

  Organic long persistent luminescence

  A blend of two organic molecules excited by a simple LED light source can release the stored excitation energy slowly as ‘long persistent luminescence’ over periods of up to an hour.

  • Ryota Kabe
  •  & Chihaya Adachi

• Letter | 14 August 2013

  Tunable near-infrared and visible-light transmittance in nanocrystal-in-glass composites

  By introducing tin-doped indium oxide nanocrystals into niobium oxide glass, a new transparent material is produced with tunable and spectrally selective optical switching properties.

  • Anna Llordés
  • , Guillermo Garcia
  •  & Delia J. Milliron

• News & Views | 01 April 2010

  Atoms in chequerboard order

  Bose–Einstein condensates are ideal tools with which exotic phenomena can be investigated. The hitherto-unrealized Dicke quantum phase transition has now been observed with one such system in an optical cavity.

  • Cheng Chin
  •  & Nathan Gemelke

• Research Highlights | 20 January 2010

  Astrophysics: Dusty galaxy

• News | 05 January 2010

  Kepler finds its first planets

  Early data hint at discoveries to come in the hunt for Earth-like worlds.

  • Eric Hand