| Scaling down Ionic Transistors to the ultimate limit |
2021-05 |
2D |
Ion Transport |
Hong Kong University News |
| Berkeley engineers demonstrate unprecedented control of light with a new quantum device |
2021-03 |
Metamaterials |
Meta Beamsplitter |
Berkeley Engineering News |
| Perfect transmission through barrier using sound |
2020-12 |
Quantum Science |
Quantum Tunneling |
The University of Hong Kong |
| Space Heater: Scientists Find New Way to Transfer Energy Through a Vacuum |
2019-12 |
Photonics |
Heat Transfer |
Scientific American |
| Quantum jitter lets heat travel across a vacuum |
2019-12 |
Photonics |
Heat Transfer |
Science News |
| Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness |
2019-12 |
Photonics |
Heat Transfer |
Berkeley News |
| Heat transferred in a previously unknown way |
2019-12 |
Photonics |
Heat Transfer |
Nature |
| Researchers balance Casimir effects, make tiny hoverboard |
2019-06 |
Photonics |
Quantum Trapping |
Ars Technica |
| Are we on the cusp of frictionless mechanical systems? |
2019-06 |
Photonics |
Quantum Trapping |
Berkeley News |
| Casimir effect creates ‘quantum trap’ for tiny objects |
2019-06 |
Photonics |
Quantum Trapping |
Physics World |
| Scientists Discover ‘Chiral Phonons’ – Atomic Rotations in a 2-D Semiconductor Crystal |
2018-02 |
2D |
Chiral Phonon |
LBL News |
| Injecting Electrons Jolts 2-D Structure Into New Atomic Pattern |
2017-10 |
2D |
Phase Transition |
LBL News |
| Dawn of High-Speed Underwater Communication |
2017-09 |
Metamaterials |
Acoustics |
Ocean News and Technology |
| Onder water filmpjes sturen |
2017-07 |
Metamaterials |
Acoustics |
NRC |
| Could This Strategy Bring High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea? |
2017-06 |
Metamaterials |
Acoustics |
LBL News |
| Ferromagnetism found in two-dimensional materials |
2017-07 |
2D |
Magnetism |
Physics Today |
| Berkeley Lab Scientists Discover New Atomically Layered, Thin Magnet |
2017-04 |
2D |
Magnetism |
LBL News |
| 2D Materials Go Ferromagnetic, Creating a New Scientific Field |
2017-04 |
2D |
Magnetism |
IEEE Spectrum |
| New atomically layered, thin magnet discovered |
2017-04 |
2D |
Magnetism |
Science Daily |
| For This Metal, Electricity Flows, But Not the Heat |
2017-01 |
Energy |
Thermal |
LBL News |
| We Gather Here Today to Join Lasers and Anti-Lasers |
2016-11 |
Nanophotonics |
CPA |
LBL News |
| How to grow electronics that are one atom thick |
2016-07 |
2D |
Transistor |
Ars Technica |
| Atomically Thin Circuits Made From Graphene and Molybdenite |
2016-07 |
2D |
Transistor |
IEEE Spectrum |
| Berkeley Lab Scientists Grow Atomically Thin Transistors and Circuits |
2016-07 |
2D |
Transistor |
LBL News |
| Scientists Take a Major Leap Toward Perfect Quantum Metamaterial |
2016-05 |
Metamaterials |
Quantum |
LBL News |
| Scientists Push Valleytronics One Step Closer to Reality |
2016-04 |
2D |
Valleytronics |
LBL News |
| Paper of the Month Award, January 2016 |
2016-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Waveguide |
Nano Research |
| "'Follow Along: It's Back to the Future Day" |
2015-10 |
Metamaterials |
Ultrathin Cloak |
White House Blog |
| "Exciting Breakthrough in 2D Lasers" |
2015-10 |
2D |
Laser |
LBL News |
| "Can't believe your eyes? Scientists build tiny invisibility cloak" |
2015-09 |
Metamaterials |
Ultrathin Cloak |
Los Angeles Times |
| "This skintight invisibility cloak is able to hide any 3-D object as long as its super tiny" |
2015-09 |
Metamaterials |
Ultrathin Cloak |
The Washington Post |
| "'Invisibility cloak' could turn beer bellies into six-packs" |
2015-09 |
Metamaterials |
Ultrathin Cloak |
theguardian |
| "Making 3D Objects Disappear" |
2015-09 |
Metamaterials |
Ultrathin Cloak |
LBL News |
| "UC Berkeley research clears path to use light energy in microchips" |
2015-07 |
Nanophotonics |
Adiabatic Elimination |
The Daily Californian |
| "Opening a New Route to Photonics" |
2015-06 |
Nanophotonics |
Adiabatic Elimination |
LBL News |
| "Opening a new route to photonics: Researchers find way to control light in densely packed nanowaveguides" |
2015-06 |
Nanophotonics |
Adiabatic Elimination |
Phys.org |
| "Nanowaveguides open a new route to photonics" |
2015-06 |
Nanophotonics |
Adiabatic Elimination |
Nanowerk |
| "New Design Tool for Metamaterials" |
2015-02 |
Metamaterials |
Nonlinear |
LBL News |
| "Piezoelectricity in a 2D Semiconductor" |
2014-12 |
2D |
Piezoelectricity |
LBL News |
| "Method for symmetry-breaking in feedback-driven self-assembly of optical metamaterials" |
2014-11 |
Metamaterials |
Self Assembly |
Phys.org |
| "Outsmarting Thermodynamics in Self-assembly of Nanostructures" |
2014-11 |
Metamaterials |
Self Assembly |
Science Daily |
| "Outsmarting Thermodynamics in Self-assembly of Nanostructures" |
2014-11 |
Metamaterials |
Self Assembly |
LBL News |
| "Lord of the Microrings" |
2014-10 |
Nanophotonics |
Single-mode Laser |
LBL News |
| "New amplifier design could improve quantum circuits" |
2014-10 |
Other |
Other |
Physics World |
| "Excitonic Dark States Shed Light on TMDC Atomic Layers" |
2014-09 |
2D |
Exciton binding energy |
LBL News |
| "Researchers develop new bomb-detecting technology" |
2014-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
KTVU |
| "Lasing plasmon nanocavity detects deadly explosives" |
2014-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
Nanotechweb |
| "Innovation in Bomb Detection Using Nanosensors" |
2014-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
Azosensors |
| "A Plasmon Laser Sensor for Bomb Detection" |
2014-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
Optics & Photonics News |
| "Bottling Up Sound Waves" |
2014-07 |
Metamaterials |
Acoustics |
UC Berkeley |
| "Tiny laser sensor heightens bomb detection sensitivity" |
2014-07 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
UC Berkeley |
| "Edgy Look at 2D Molybdenum Disulfide" |
2014-05 |
2D |
Edge nonlinearity |
LBL News |
| "Berkeley Lab Researchers Create a Nonlinear Light-generating Zero-Index MetaMaterial" |
2013-12 |
Metamaterials |
Zero-Index Metamaterial |
LBL News |
| "Freeing Nonlinear Optics from Phase Matching" |
2013-12 |
Metamaterials |
Zero-Index |
Science |
| "Zero-Index Material Generates Nonlinear Light" |
2013-03 |
Metamaterials |
Zero-Index |
Photonics.com |
| "Quantum Computers Coming Soon? Metamaterials Used to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect" |
2013-03 |
Metamaterials |
Spin Hall Effect |
Science Daily |
| "Putting a new spin on photons" |
2013-03 |
Metamaterials |
Spin Hall Effect |
IOP: Physics World |
| "Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Metamaterials to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect" |
2013-03 |
Metamaterials |
Spin Hall Effect |
LBL News |
| "Highlights in Research: Photonic Spin Hall Effect" |
2013-03 |
Metamaterials |
Spin Hall Effect |
Science |
| "Performance of Nanowire Solar Cells on the Rise" |
2013-01 |
Energy |
Nanowire Solar Cells |
Science |
| "Bendy 'plasmon' beams focus better than light alone" |
2011-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Airy Beams |
New Scientist |
| "PLASMONICS: Airy beam controls the flow of surface plasmon polaritons" |
2011-10 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Airy Beams |
Laser Focus World |
| "Accelerating beams: Non-paraxial-limited" |
2013-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Accelerating Beams |
Nature Photonics |
| "Light bends itself round corners" |
2012-11 |
Nanophotonics |
Accelerating Beams |
IOP: Physics World |
| "Weber beams beat the paraxial limit of Airy beams" |
2012-12 |
Nanophotonics |
Accelerating Beams |
Laser Focus World |
| "Synopsis: Optical Boomerangs" |
2012-11 |
Nanophotonics |
Accelerating Beams |
APS: Physics |
| "Two New Classes of Accelerating Light Beams" |
2012-11 |
Nanophotonics |
Accelerating Beams |
Optics and Photonics News |
| "Quantum physics: Time crystals" |
2013-01 |
Other |
Space-Time Crystal |
Nature: News & Views |
| "A Clock That Will Last Forever: Proposal to Build First Space-Time Crystal" |
2012-09 |
Other |
Space-Time Crystal |
Science Daily |
| "Eternal Clock Could Keep Time after the Universe Dies" |
2012-09 |
Other |
Space-Time Crystal |
Scientific American |
| "Computer that could outlive the universe a step closer" |
2012-07 |
Other |
Space-Time Crystal |
New Scientist |
| "Spacetime crystals on the horizon"
|
2012-07 |
Other |
Space-Time Crystal |
Physics World |
| "Berkeley Lab researchers propose a practical space-time crystal"
|
2012-10 |
Other |
Space-Time Crystal |
DOE Pulse |
| "Building a space-time crystal"
|
2012-11 |
Other |
Space-Time Crystal |
Nature: Research Highlights |
| "Researchers Build Compact Optical Circuit"
|
2012-09 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Circuit |
ACS |
| "Viewpoint: Crystals of Time
"
|
2012-10 |
Other |
Space-Time Crystal |
APS |
| "Far-field imaging: New dimension for hyperlens"
|
2011-03 |
Metamaterials |
Hyperlens |
Nature Photonics |
| "New class of 3-D optical cavities demonstrated"
|
2012-09 |
Metamaterials |
3D Indefinite Cavity |
Photonics Spectra |
| "Subcellular sensing"
|
2011-07 |
Bioengineering |
Extracellular Sensing |
Nature Photonics |
| "Metamolecules That Switch Handedness at Light-Speed"
|
2012-07 |
Metamaterials |
Switchable Chiral Metamaterials |
LBL News |
| "First 3D Nanoscale Optical Cavities from Metamaterials" |
2012-07 |
Metamaterials |
3D Indefinite Cavity |
LBL News |
| "World Smallest Optical Cavities Lead to Most Intense Nanolaser Beams " |
2012-06 |
Metamaterials |
3D Indefinite Cavity |
IEEE Spectrum |
| "New Tool May Yield Smaller, Faster Optoelectronics" |
2011-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Airy Beams |
OSA News Release |
| "Shooting light a curve" |
2011-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Airy Beams |
LBL News |
| "Optical cloaks hide objects in broad daylight" |
2011-08 |
Metamaterials |
Carpet Cloak |
New Scientist |
| "Invisibility' cloak renders objects hidden to eye" |
2011-08 |
Metamaterials |
Carpet Cloak |
MSNBC |
| "Invisibility carpet cloak can hide objects from visible light" |
2011-06 |
Metamaterials |
Carpet Cloak |
PhysOrg |
| "Berkeley Lab Researchers Create Nanoscale Waveguide for Future Photonics" |
2011-05 |
Nanophotonics |
HPP Waveguide |
LBL News |
| "New HPP Nanoscale Waveguides For Futuristic On-Chip Optical Communication" |
2011-06 |
Nanophotonics |
HPP Waveguide |
Crazy Engineers |
| "Graphene modulator tackles optics" |
2011-05 |
2D |
Graphene modulator |
EE Times |
| "Graphene Device Modulates Light" |
2011-05 |
2D |
Graphene modulator |
IEEE Spectrum |
| "Graphene Modulators Could Break Network Speed Limits" |
2011-05 |
2D |
Graphene modulator |
PC World |
| "Graphene modulator means 3D film download in seconds" |
2011-05 |
2D |
Graphene modulator |
TechEYE.net |
| "GRIN Plasmonics: A Practical Path to Superfast Computing, Ultrapowerful Optical Microscopy and Invisibility Carpet-Cloaking Devices" |
2011-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Lenses |
LBL News |
| "GRIN Plasmonics" |
2011-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Lenses |
Scienec Daily |
| "Hotspots Tamed by BEAST" |
2011-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Single Molecule |
LBL News |
| "Single molecules probe tiny hotspots" |
2011-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Single Molecule |
Physics World |
| "Hotspots on Lit Metal Surfaces Explained" |
2011-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Single Molecule |
Softpedia |
| "Tiny Room-Temperature Plasmon Lasers" |
2011-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Room Temp. Plasmon Laser |
Optics & Photonics |
| "Nanolasers Heat Up" |
2011-01 |
Nanophotonics |
Room Temp. Plasmon Laser |
MIT Tech. Review |
| "Scientists Take Plasmon Lasers Out of Deep Freeze" |
2010-12 |
Nanophotonics |
Room Temp. Plasmon Laser |
UC Berkeley News |
| "Nanolaser Heats Up" |
2010-12 |
Nanophotonics |
Room Temp. Plasmon Laser |
IEEE Spectrum |
| "U.S. scientists take plasmon lasers out of deep freeze" |
2010-12 |
Nanophotonics |
Room Temp. Plasmon Laser |
Xinhua News |
| "Strange New Twist: Bekeley Researchers Discover Mobius Symmetry in Metamaterials" |
2010-12 |
Metamaterials |
Mobius Symmetry |
LBL news |
| "Metamaterials Can Exhibit Mobius Symmetry" |
2010-12 |
Metamaterials |
Mobius Symmetry |
Softpedia |
| "Novel Metamaterial Vastly Improves Quality of Ultrasound Imaging" |
2010-11 |
Metamaterials |
Acoustic |
Science Daily |
| "Novel metamaterial vastly improves ultrasound imaging resolution by 50 times" |
2010-11 |
Metamaterials |
Acoustic |
Next Big Future |
| "Laser powers tiny, golden light mills" |
2010-07 |
Nanophotonics |
Nano turbine |
Discovery News |
| "Nanotechnology: Photons make light work" |
2010-07 |
Nanophotonics |
Nano turbine |
Nature Research Highlights |
| "Nano-Sized Light Mill Drives Micro-Sized Disk" |
2010-07 |
Nanophotonics |
Nano turbine |
Science Daily |
| "Nano-sized light mill drives micro-sized disk (w/ Video)" |
2010-07 |
Nanophotonics |
Nano turbine |
PhysOrg |
| "Nano-Sized Light Mill Drives Microdisk" |
2010-07 |
Nanophotonics |
Nano turbine |
Photonics |
| "World's smallest semiconductor laser heralds new era in optical science" |
2009-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
Science Daily |
| "Scientists Have Big Hopes For Tiny Lasers" |
2009-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
NPR News |
| "World's smalles semiconductor laser heralds new era in optical science" |
2009-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
PhysOrg |
| "World's smallest semiconductor laser heralds new era in optical science" |
2009-08 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmon Laser |
UC Berk. News |
| "Metamaterials Could Mimic Black Holes, Disrupted Planetary Orbits" |
2009-09 |
Metamaterials |
Black Holes |
US News |
| "Testing Relativity, Black Holes and Strange Attractors in the Laboratory" |
2009-07 |
Metamaterials |
Black Holes |
LBL News |
| "Berkeley Researchers Create an "Invisibility Cloak" |
2009-05 |
Metamaterials |
Optical Cloak |
US News |
| "Invisibility cloak edges closer" |
2009-04 |
Metamaterials |
Optical Cloak |
BBC News |
| "Leap forward for invisibility cloaks" |
2009-04 |
Metamaterials |
Optical Cloak |
Nature News |
| "Invisibility Cloak for Almost-Visible Light" |
2009-04 |
Metamaterials |
Optical Cloak |
AAAS |
| "Berkeley Researchers Create First Hyperlens for Sound Waves" |
2009-10 |
Metameterials |
Acoustics |
LBL News |
| "Beyond Diffraction" |
2007-05 |
Metamaterials |
Hyperlens |
Nature |
| "Superlenses bring the nanoworld into focus" |
2007-03 |
Metamaterials |
Hyperlens |
Nature |
| "Light Fantastic: Flirting with Invisibility" |
2007-06 |
Metamaterials |
Superlens |
NYT |
| "Visible Light Bent the 'Wrong' Way" |
2007-03 |
Metamaterials |
Superlens |
Scientific America |
| "Nano-objects under the light microscope" |
2007-03 |
Metamaterials |
Superlens |
Chemistry World |
| "Superlens Far and Away" |
2007-03 |
Metamaterials |
Superlens |
Nature Photonics |
| "Scientific American Magazine Highlights Zhang Group’s Research" |
2007-07 |
Metamaterials |
Superlens |
Scientific America |
| "Nanoscale 'Pins' Enhance SERS" |
2007-05 |
Nanophotonics |
SERS |
Photonics |
| "Micro-optics and Megapixels" |
2006-11 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Lens |
Optics and Photoincs New |
| Top 100 Stories of 2008 |
2008 |
Metamaterials |
3D Negative Index |
DISCOVER |
| Top 10 Scientific Discoveries |
2008 |
Metamaterials |
3D Negative Index |
TIME |
| Click here to watch CNN news video on xlab's recent research |
2008 |
Metamaterials |
3D Negative Index |
CNN |
| "Surpassing Nature, Scientists Bend Light Backward" |
2008-08 |
Metamaterials |
3D Negative Index |
NYT |
| "Invisibility cloak 'step closer'" |
2008-08 |
Metamaterials |
3D Negative Index |
BBC |
| "Ultrasonic Metamaterial Reported in Nature Materials" |
2006-06 |
Metamaterials |
3D Negative Index |
Nature Materials |
| Prof. Zhang interviewed by National Geography |
2010-10 |
Metamaterials |
3D Negative Index |
Natl. Geo. |
| "Surface Plasmons Utilized to Achieve High-Density Nanolithography" |
2004-06 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Lithography |
Cambridge Core |
| "Berkeley researchers from NSF SINAM find way to make smaller chips" |
2009-06 |
Nanophotonics |
Plasmonic Lithography |
ABC |
| "Artificial Materials Show Terahertz Response" |
2004-04 |
Metamaterials |
THz Magnetism |
Materials Today |
| "Science Closes in On Perfect Lens" |
2004-03 |
Metamaterials |
THz Magnetism |
BBC |
| "Researchers Create Terahertz Magnetism From Non-magnetic Materials" |
2004-03 |
Metamaterials |
THz Magnetism |
Science Daily |
| "Discovery May Lead to New Imaging Tools" |
2004-03 |
Metamaterials |
THz Magnetism |
SJ Business Journal |