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A team of researchers led by Professor Zhang Zhiyong at Peking University has developed a groundbreaking short-wave infrared ...

To him it means Liberty and Truth. This autumn, amid the happy local noise of a new U.S. radio season, the man at the other end of U.S. short-wave transmission was much on the minds of U.S ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Jessica Yung of Short Wave about carnivorous squirrels, the history of life on Earth, and new insights into the relationship between people and dogs.

There are many statistics out there that prove that flying on a commercial airplane is safe, that plane crashes are overall ...

More information: Guy L. Whitworth et al, Extended Short‐Wave Infrared Colloidal Quantum Dot Lasers with Nanosecond Excitation, Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202410207 Provided by ...

Prof Zhang Zhiyong’s team developed a heterojunction-gated field-effect transistor (HGFET) that achieves high sensitivity in short-wave infrared detection, with a recorded specific detectivity above ...

Current laser technologies for the extended short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectral range rely on expensive and complex materials, limiting their scalability and affordability. To address these ...