#How adding green tea extract to prepared foods may reduce the risk for norovirus

“#How adding green tea extract to prepared foods may reduce the risk for norovirus” Infusing prepared foods with an edible coating that contains green tea extract may lower consumers’ chances of catching the highly contagious norovirus by eating contaminated food, new research suggests. Norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhea, sickens an estimated 48 million people…

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#Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago revealed by lunar craters

“#Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago revealed by lunar craters” An asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system Credit: Artist’s illustration, credit: Murayama/Osaka Univ. A research team led by Osaka University investigated the formation ages of 59 lunar craters with a diameter of approximately 20 km using the Terrain Camera (TC) onboard…

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#A survey on optical memory and optical RAM technologies

“#A survey on optical memory and optical RAM technologies” a master-slave scheme, b feedback loop scheme, c injection-locking technique and d phase-change material (PCM) properties in the case of GST compounds. Credit: by Alexoudi, T., Kanellos, G.T. & Pleros, N. Over the past decades, ‘storing light’ has appeared as a rather controversial concept, given that…

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#Topological photonics in fractal lattices

#Topological photonics in fractal lattices

Topological insulators are a new phase of matter unique for their insulating bulk and perfectly conducting edges. They have been at the forefront of condensed matter physics for the past decade, and more recently inspired the emergence of topological phases in many classical-wave systems, such as photonics and acoustics. To date, all studies of topological…

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#Synthetic dimensions enable a new way to construct higher-order topological insulators

“#Synthetic dimensions enable a new way to construct higher-order topological insulators” a, An array of coupled ring resonators (green), each with an embedded electro-optic modulator (orange). b, The corresponding lattice in real and synthetic dimensions, x and frequency, respectively. The lattice shows higher-order topological behavior, such as the existence of corner modes. (c), Real-space structure…

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#New detection method turns silicon cameras into mid-infrared detectors

“#New detection method turns silicon cameras into mid-infrared detectors” Artistic rendering of the principle of non-degenerate two-photon absorption (NTA) for the detection of mid-infrared (MIR) by a silicon-based camera. In this detection technique, the sensor is illuminated directly by the MIR light beam, while a second, near-infrared (NIR) beam is also incident on the sensor….

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#Temporal aiming with temporal metamaterials

“#Temporal aiming with temporal metamaterials” a, an incoming electromagnetic wave travels in an unbounded medium with an isotropic permittivity. b, by rapidly changing the permittivity of the medium in time from isotropic to an anisotropic tensor (with the x component of permittivity smaller than its z component) a temporal boundary is introduced producing forward and…

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