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Multi-coloured holograms

Nanotechnology used to create next-generation holograms for information storage

28 Aug 2014

Holograms made of tiny particles of silver could double the amount of information that can be stored in digital optical devices, such as sensors...

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Fans of devitrite crystals

New use for an old ‘trouble maker’

20 Mar 2014

A ‘trouble maker’ from a bygone method of glass production could find a new use as an optical diffuser in medical laser treatments, communications...

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Sensing molecules by light using a substrate of nanoscale gold vocals

Squeezing more from light: coupling nanoscience and photonics

01 Sep 2008

Cambridge’s new NanoPhotonics Centre is creating novel properties of light and matter at the nanoscale.

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