Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit

There's a limit to how tightly a lens can focus a laser beam. For researchers studying the interactions between light and matter, this makes experiments more challenging. A new chip made from a thin, grooved sheet of silver defies this limit, delivering the energy of 800-nanometer laser light to a sample in peaks and valleys just a few dozen nanometers apart.

Quantum Optics of Correlated Materials at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, led by Prof. Daniel G. Suárez-Forero

Hafezi Receives Humboldt Research Award

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has honored JQI Fellow Mohammad Hafezi for his impactful research and will support him visiting Germany to collaborate in person with colleagues there.