Triple Keys for High Security

Very secure and highly efficient: encryption and decryption with luminescent perovskites

03-Jun-2025 - To guarantee high data security, encryption must be unbreakable while the data remains rapidly and easily readable. A novel strategy for optical encryption/decryption of information has now been introduced in the journal Angewandte Chemie by a Chinese research team. It is based on compounds with ...

New method for measuring luminescence lifetime offers breakthrough in scientific imaging

Ac­cel­er­at­ing the pace of dis­cov­ery in sci­ence and in­dustry

22-Oct-2024 - Re­search­ers at the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy, Leib­niz-In­sti­tute for Baltic Sea Re­search and Uni­versity of Copen­ha­gen in­tro­duce an in­nov­at­ive ap­proach to im­age lu­min­es­cence life­times. This simple ap­proach uses read­ily-avail­able cost-ef­fect­ive ...

Bioluminescence - the natural glow

How glowing molecules can also be used in industry

23-Apr-2024 - Many living organisms can glow in the dark. Researchers are already using this ability in medicine. A research team led by Prof. Dr. Stefan Schramm from HTWD is investigating how glowing molecules can also be used in industry. Dresden, 17.04.2024 - Bioluminescence is the emission of light as a ...

How to keep data safe on the long run

Team presents new path to long-term data storage based on atomic-scale defects

08-Apr-2024 - With the development of the internet, social media or cloud computing, the amount of data created worldwide on a daily basis is sky-rocketing. This calls for new technologies which could provide higher storage densities combined with secure long-term data archiving far beyond the capabilities of ...

Let it glow: Scientists develop new approach to detect ‘forever chemicals’ in water

18-Jan-2024 - Scientists at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with scientists from the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) have developed a new approach for detecting pollution from ‘forever chemicals’ in water through luminescence. PFAS or ‘forever chemicals’ are manufactured ...

AI for perovskite solar cells: Key to better manufacturing

Artificial Intelligence methods guide researchers in developing improved manufacturing processes for highly efficient solar cells – a blueprint for other research areas

24-Nov-2023 - Perovskite tandem solar cells combine a perovskite solar cell with a conventional solar cell, for example based on silicon. These cells are considered a next-generation technology: They boast an efficiency of currently more than 33 percent, which is much higher than that of conventional silicon ...

Nanoantennas directing a bright future: White LEDs may soon be dethroned

Titanium oxides found to significantly increase efficiency and photoluminescence

23-Dec-2022 - White LEDs may soon be dethroned as the world's go-to light source by an alternative with a much better sense of direction. As a next-generation optical control technology, aphotonic crystalornanoantennais a two-dimensional structure in which nano-sized particles are arranged periodically on ...

New Material for Energy Storage and Optoelectronic applications

“GTUB3” is the first microporous, metal-organic solid that is both conductive and photoluminescent

16-Dec-2022 - Researchers at TU Berlin have developed a new material from the class of microporous, metal-organic framework (MOF) compounds. On the one hand, such compounds can store small molecules and gases such as hydrogen, CO2 or even toxins. On the other hand, the large surface area resulting from the ...

Organic thin-film sensors for light-source analysis and anti-counterfeiting applications

As integrated components, the thin-film sensors could eliminate the need for external spectrometers in the future

07-Sep-2022 - In a recent publication in the scientific journal “Advanced Materials”, a team of physicists and chemists from TU Dresden presents an organic thin-film sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light and achieves a spectral resolution below one nanometer. As ...

Linked lanthanides shine light on field of crystal engineering

Rare earth metals, when linked, can act as a conduit for energy flow, and show promise for the development of novel materials

16-Aug-2022 - Scientists have connected two soft crystals and observed energy transfer between them—a finding that could lead to the development of sophisticated, responsive materials. The study, by scientists at Hokkaido University in Japan, was published in the journal Nature Communications. Soft crystals ...