Morning Overview on MSN

Carbon nanotube 'black paint' absorbs terahertz waves to reduce 6G noise

Skoltech researchers have developed an ultrathin carbon nanotube coating that absorbs terahertz radiation on silicon ...
Knowridge Science Report

New ultrasonic sensor can detect hidden defects in extreme industrial environments

Engineers at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) have developed a new ultrasonic sensing technology that can detect structural defects in dangerous environments where ...
Morning Overview on MSN

MIT photonic ‘ski jumps’ beam laser light off chips for quantum

MIT researchers have built a nanoscale photonic device shaped like a tiny ski jump that launches laser light directly off a ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Overview and Comparison of Devices Used For Optical Waveguide-to-Waveguide Coupling (MIT et al.)

A new technical paper titled “Advances in waveguide to waveguide couplers for 3D integrated photonic packaging” was published by researchers at MIT and Bridgewater State University. “In this paper, we ...
Road to VR

Meta Waveguide Provider Claims “world’s first” 70° FoV Waveguide

Lumus, the company that developed the waveguide optic used in Meta’s Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, says it has achieved a 70° field-of-view in a new design revealed this week at CES 2026. This ...
The Baltimore Sun

Waveguides: How does augmented reality work?

If someone on your holiday list is dying to play Pokémon Go or Jurassic World Live on an augmented reality rig, glasses and headsets can be found costing as little as $64 or as high as $1,700, with ...
Road to VR

Meta Ray-Ban Display Waveguide Provider Says It’s Poised for Wide Field-of-view Glasses

SCHOTT—a global leader in advanced optics and specialty glass—working with waveguide partner Lumus, is almost certainly the manufacturer of the waveguide optics in Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses.
IEEE

FEM modeling of non-self-adjoint waveguide problems

Abstract: The traditional FEM can only calculate the reciprocal problem. Our new non-self-adjoint FEM can solve non-self-adjoint problem which contains inhomogeneous and anisotropic media where the ...
Phys.org

AI-designed waveguides pave the way for next-generation photonic devices

A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for designing and creating universal diffractive waveguides that can control the flow of ...
Phys.org

Polymer waveguides show promise for reliable, high-capacity optical communication

Co-packaged optics (CPO) technology can integrate photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with electronic integrated circuits (EICs) like CPUs and GPUs on a single platform. This advanced technology has ...
The New York Times

Why Common Problems Are Often Worse Than We Realize

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...