Their findings, which they obtained by using ultrasonic techniques to investigate surface and bulk wave propagation in the shrimp’s ... leads to natural composite materials with unique photonic, ...

Invented at Ames, NASA's Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology (HEEET)—the brown, textured material covering the bottom of the capsule in this photo—is a woven heat shield ...

Now, researchers led by Tobias Kippenberg at EPFL and Paul Seidler at IBM Research Europe -- Zurich have developed a photonic-chip-based traveling-wave parametric amplifier (TWPA) that achieves ...