Columbia and Max Planck pair laser to crystal lattice vibrations
Research aim is to enhance optical properties of two-dimensional materials.
Source: optics.org
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Research aim is to enhance optical properties of two-dimensional materials.
By combining laser light with crystal lattice vibrations, engineers at Columbia University and their theoretical collaborators at the Max Planck for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have discovered a way to improve the nonlinear optical characteristics of a layered 2D material.