{"id":83078,"date":"2021-02-16T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T11:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=83078"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T07:13:42","slug":"significance-of-nanophotonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/significance-of-nanophotonics\/","title":{"rendered":"Significance of &#8220;Nanophotonics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Hyderabad have developed a technique named \u201cmechanophotonics\u201d. It has allowed them to move, slice, bend, and lift micron-sized wave guiding crystals using atomic force microscopy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significance of Research: <\/strong>This ability to manipulate micron-sized crystals with precision and control is very useful in the field of nanophotonics. It focuses on building circuits, driven entirely by photons (light).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Nanophotonics or nano-optics?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale and the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light. It is a branch of optics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nanometer<\/strong>: It is equal to one billionth of a meter. One nanometre can be expressed in scientific notation as 1\u00d710\u22129 m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Applications of Nanophotonics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solar cells: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solar Cells often work best when the light is absorbed very close to the surface. It is because electrons near the surface have a better chance of being collected. Moreover, the device can be made thinner, which reduces cost. Researchers have investigated a variety of nanophotonic techniques to intensify light in the optimal locations within a solar cell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Optical Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nano-Photonics can help achieve an unprecedented level of miniaturization. It is useful for all-optical-based technologies such as pliable, wearable devices. These are operated by light entirely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Integrated Circuits(IC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nanophotonics would make it possible to go beyond current electronics. It will build up integrated-circuits driven entirely by photons(light).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Spectroscopy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If a given amount of light energy is squeezed into a smaller and smaller volume (&#8220;hot-spot&#8221;), the intensity in the hot-spot gets larger and larger. This is especially helpful in nonlinear optics, an example is surface-enhanced <a href=\"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/detecting-rna-virus-in-saliva-samples-using-raman-spectroscopy\/\">Raman scattering<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/nanophotonics-hyderabad-scientists-manipulate-tiny-crystals\/article33829978.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Researchers from the University of Hyderabad have developed a technique named \u201cmechanophotonics\u201d. It has allowed them to move, slice, bend, and lift micron-sized wave guiding crystals using atomic force microscopy. Significance of Research: This ability to manipulate micron-sized crystals with precision and control is very useful in the field of nanophotonics.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/significance-of-nanophotonics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Significance of &#8220;Nanophotonics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,1738,9],"tags":[1670],"class_list":["post-83078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}