Nanocrystals

Hybrid integration of a designer nanodiamond with photonic circuits via ring resonators. CreditSteven Burrows/Sun GroupJILA breakthrough in integrating artificial atoms with photonic circuits advances quantum computing efficiency and scalability.In quantum information science, many particles can act as “bits,” from individual atoms to photons. At JILA, researchers utilize these bits as “qubits,” storing and processing quantum 1s or 0s through a unique system.While many JILA Fellows focus on qubits found in nature, such as…

Turning tellurite glass into a ‘transparent’ light-energy harvester by etching semiconducting patterns using femtosecond laser light. Credit: EPFL / Lisa AckermannResearchers found that exposing tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light creates semiconducting nanocrystals, opening the possibility of turning glass into electricity-generating surfaces using only light.What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That’s the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab, in a collaboration with…

Scientists have unveiled new insights into halide perovskites’ optical properties, finding that photo-excited electrons increase crystal symmetry. This discovery could lead to advances in technologies like high-quality TV screens and more efficient solar cells.Many scientific and technical challenges could be effortlessly addressed if we had the capability to observe the movements of atoms and electrons within materials in real-time. For halide perovskites, a group of minerals increasingly used in a variety of…