In January, a team led by Jim Schuck, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering, developed a method for creating entangled photon pairs, a critical component of emerging quantum ...

Laser light can physically distort Janus TMD materials, revealing how their asymmetrical structure amplifies light-driven forces. These effects could power breakthroughs in photonic chips, sensors, ...

Light isn’t just illuminating materials anymore, it’s moving them. Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of light can physically shift atoms in a class of ultra-thin semiconductors ...

Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have found a new way to image ...