{"id":172226,"date":"2023-09-17T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/researchers-develop-a-novel-method-to-generate-deep-uv-light"},"modified":"2023-09-17T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:27:19","slug":"researchers-develop-a-novel-method-to-generate-deep-uv-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/researchers-develop-a-novel-method-to-generate-deep-uv-light","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop a novel method to generate deep-UV light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-a-novel-method-to-generate-deep-uv-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This device can generate deep-UV light with a very narrow wavelength range that is safe for humans but lethal for germs.<\/p>\n<p>A new device that can generate deep-ultraviolet (UV) light to kill germs without harming humans has been developed by a team of researchers from Osaka University, Japan. The device uses a novel method of combining two visible photons into one deep-UV photon inside a thin waveguide made of aluminum nitride, a material that has nonlinear optical properties.<\/p>\n<p>The research, named \u201c229 nm far-ultraviolet second harmonic generation in a vertical polarity inverted AlN bilayer channel waveguide,\u201d has been published in the journal Applied Physics Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This device can generate deep-UV light with a very narrow wavelength range that is safe for humans but lethal for germs. A new device that can generate deep-ultraviolet (UV) light to kill germs without harming humans has been developed by a team of researchers from Osaka University, Japan. The device uses a novel method of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172226","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}