(Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers has reported a van der Waals heterostructure photodetector consisting of graphene and its fluorine-functionalized derivative that enhances the ...

As a representative two-dimensional material, graphene possesses unique optical and electrical properties that hold immense promise in various fields, particularly in photodetection. Nonetheless, its ...

In a recent work published in Nature Communications, the research group led by ICREA Professor at ICFO Frank Koppens demonstrate a novel way to detect low-energy photons using vertical ...

As the graphene market develops, it will be important to highlight even more potential uses. The purpose of this article is to shed light on how graphene can be used as a photodetector. The Graphene ...

(Nanowerk News) Using graphene, one of science’s most versatile materials, engineers from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have invented a new type of photodetector that can work with more types ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have solved a problem hindering development of highly sensitive optical devices made of a material called graphene, an advance that could bring applications from ...

Following optical communication’s pivotal role in the internet age, it is expected to be similarly central for the evolution of 5G networks. Contemporary communications are reliant on optical links, ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Corporation (“NTT”) and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) have jointly achieved the world's fastest zero-bias operation 1 (220 GHz) of a graphene ...

Graphene seems to be following a trajectory somewhat paralleling that of the first laser. When the latter was publicly announced in 1960, pundits and skeptics remarked that it was “a solution looking ...

Objects at different distances from the lens will come into focus at different points inside the camera. Image credit: Stephen Alvey, University of Michigan A new 3D camera made from a stack of ...