News & Events

>> Nature Photonics highlights a new type of sensor devised in the Capasso group called a plasmonic optical-antenna fiber probe. The probe could potentially perform in situ chemical and biological detection and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. [full story]

>> nanotechweb.org highlights a recent study in the Capasso group on single-nanowire ultraviolet light-emitting diodes. [read full article], also featured on the cover of the June 13 issue of Nanotechnology.

Read the Nanotechnology article in the publications page.

>>The Capasso group's work on the Casimir force by designing the quantum fluctuations has been featured by Nature. Read the full article here.

>>Recent experiments done in the Capasso group on the Casimir force in fluids have been highlighted by physics web. [full story]

>>Surface-emitting Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser work by Capasso's group highlighted in Nature Photonics. This structure circumvents the problem of high beam divergence in edge emitting THz QC lasers, thus providing small divergence beams. [pdf]
Read the Optics Express article in the publications page.

>>Nature Materials highlights a microfluidic approach for tuning the emission wavelength of quantum cascade lasers developed in the Capasso group. [read full article]
Read the Optics Express article in the publications page.

>>Thinking Small. From quantum materials design to ''voodoo physics'' in the nanoscientists' weird world. [pdf]

>>Nature Nanotechnology highlights a novel technique developed in the Capasso group for achieving better electrical injection into single nanowires for improved semiconductor light sources. [read full article]
Read the Nano Letters article in the publications page.

>>PRESS RELEASE
Researchers in the Capasso group, in collaboration with the Crozier lab, have demonstrated a new photonic device with a wide range of potential commercial applications, including dramatically higher capacity for optical data storage. Termed a plasmonic laser antenna, the design consists of a metallic nanostructure, known as an optical antenna, integrated onto the facet of a commercial semiconductor laser. [full press release]
Read the Appl. Phys. Lett. article in the publications page.
Additional media coverage:
Newsweek Magazine, A Library of a Disk?
MIT Technology Review, How to Burn a Three Terabyte CD

>>PRESS RELEASE
Researchers in the Capasso group have, for the first time, demonstrated high-power continuous wave (cw) room temperature quantum cascade (QC) lasers made by a well-established mass production semiconductor synthesis technique. The breakthrough could soon lead to the large-scale commercialization of QC lasers and open up new markets for laser based chemical sensors. [full press release]

Read the Appl. Phys. Lett. article in the publications page.