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Picture of the Week: Luminescent Image of Carbon Dot Layer
For over 15 years, scientists have been exploring the nature of carbon dot emission, and this image illustrates the relationship between the emission intensity and the concentration of particles in the dry layer.
21.12.2020
GIF of the Week: Spores of Lycopodium Clavatum in Electrodynamic Trap
The video features an experiment in the localization of biological objects, namely, spores of Lycopodium Clavatum (with an average size of 30 microns), in a quadrupole electrodynamic trap.
14.12.2020
ITMO University Researchers Shed New Light on Plasmonic Nanolasers
For six years, a research team from the Photophysics of Surface Laboratory at ITMO’s International Research and Educational Center for Physics of Nanostructures has been studying plasmonic nanolasers – a long-standing subject of debate in the scientific community. The study was conducted as part of a Russian Presidential Grant.
08.12.2020
Scientists Demonstrate New Opportunities for Controlling Light in Optical Graphene
This will help scientists and engineers to better understand the properties of light propagating in materials with a hexagonal structure, and use this knowledge in fundamental research and the development of optical devices. Physicists from ITMO took part in this research. The article was published in Nature Photonics.
03.12.2020
Picture of the Week: Light-Emitting Perovskite
Perovskite-based devices could potentially be used to create commercial-purpose full-color displays that would be cheaper and more efficient than their existing OLED counterparts.
23.11.2020
Russian Scientists Develop Super Resonator in the Microwave Range
Results of the research performed by a joint team of physicists from ITMO University, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI", and the Australian National University, can be used to design highly efficient compact elements for microwave and optical devices, particularly elements for optical computers.
16.11.2020
Russian Scientists Develop Perovskite Metasurfaces for Smart Glass
Perovskite thin films will make it possible to turn normal glass into smart surfaces that can display information in AR devices and convert solar energy into electricity. The research of the group headed by ITMO scientists has been published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
10.11.2020
University College Dublin's Prof. John T. Sheridan on Holography, Career, and Irish Culture
This November, one of the top experts in the world of photonics will conduct a series of open lectures for ITMO students. ITMO.NEWS spoke with Professor John T. Sheridan about the future of holography, academic networking, and why he believes it’s better to think it over ten times before becoming a professor.
09.11.2020
Picture of the Week: Rainbow Shine in Polymeric Materials
This effect can be used to control the internal stress on surfaces of transparent objects, which is required to monitor quality control of products and their technical state.
09.11.2020
ITMO University Researchers Predict New Quantum Phase of Matter in Chains of Oscillating Atoms
The results of this research can be used to control the properties of light and matter and to create quantum memory.
05.11.2020