(Nanowerk Spotlight) The human eye's remarkable ability to detect edges—the boundaries between light and dark areas in our visual field—is a fundamental aspect of how we perceive the world. This ...

(a) Vertical edge imaging under positive electric field. Inset: the helical structure is suppressed and FLC molecules rotate to the left side of the core parallel to the substrates. (b) Horizontal ...

Professor Koray Aydin developed a metasurface spatial filter to improve image processing used in augmented and virtual reality systems, autonomous vehicles, and biometric identification systems. Along ...

Imagia, a developer of optical metasurface technology, has announced a “breakthrough” that allows for optically-accelerated feature detection, enabling image processing operations without power ...

Sentient Vision Systems (Sentient) has successfully completed live demonstrations of its AI-enabled ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) payload deployed on Edge Autonomy’s VXE30 UAS. The VXE30 ...

When a beam is reflected (or refracted) at optical interface or propagating through an inhomogeneous medium, photons with opposite spin angular momenta will separate with each other, resulting in a ...

Semiconductors have had a nice run, but for certain applications, such as astrophysics, they are being edged out by superconductors. Ben Mazin, assistant professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara, has ...