{"id":118515,"date":"2021-01-14T18:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T02:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/first-nanomaterial-developed-that-demonstrates-photon-avalanching-extreme-nonlinear-optical-behavior-and-efficiency"},"modified":"2021-01-14T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T02:23:27","slug":"first-nanomaterial-developed-that-demonstrates-photon-avalanching-extreme-nonlinear-optical-behavior-and-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/first-nanomaterial-developed-that-demonstrates-photon-avalanching-extreme-nonlinear-optical-behavior-and-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"First Nanomaterial Developed That Demonstrates \u201cPhoton Avalanching\u201d \u2013 Extreme Nonlinear Optical Behavior and Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-nanomaterial-developed-that-demonstrates-photon-avalanching-extreme-nonlinear-optical-behavior-and-efficiency3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers develop the first nanomaterial that demonstrates \u201cphoton avalanching;\u201d finding could lead to new applications in sensing, imaging, and light detection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Columbia Engineering report today that they have developed the first nanomaterial that demonstrates \u201cphoton avalanching,\u201d a process that is unrivaled in its combination of extreme nonlinear optical behavior and efficiency. The realization of photon avalanching in nanoparticle form opens up a host of sought-after applications, from real-time super-resolution optical microscopy, precise temperature and environmental sensing, and infrared light detection, to optical analog-to-digital conversion and quantum sensing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody has seen avalanching behavior like this in nanomaterials before,\u201d said James Schuck, associate professor of mechanical engineering, who led the study published today (January 132021) by <i>Nature<\/i>. \u201cWe studied these new nanoparticles at the single-nanoparticle level, allowing us to prove that avalanching behavior can occur in nanomaterials. This exquisite sensitivity could be incredibly transformative. For instance, imagine if we could sense changes in our chemical surroundings, like variations in or the actual presence of molecular species. We might even be able to detect coronavirus and other diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers develop the first nanomaterial that demonstrates \u201cphoton avalanching;\u201d finding could lead to new applications in sensing, imaging, and light detection. Researchers at Columbia Engineering report today that they have developed the first nanomaterial that demonstrates \u201cphoton avalanching,\u201d a process that is unrivaled in its combination of extreme nonlinear optical behavior and efficiency. The realization [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}