{"id":188088,"date":"2024-04-25T06:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/light-stands-still-in-a-deformed-crystal"},"modified":"2024-04-25T06:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:26:23","slug":"light-stands-still-in-a-deformed-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/light-stands-still-in-a-deformed-crystal","title":{"rendered":"Light stands still in a deformed crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-stands-still-in-a-deformed-crystal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AMOLF researchers, in collaboration with Delft University of Technology, have succeeded in bringing light waves to a halt by deforming the two-dimensional photonic crystal that contains them. The researchers show that even a subtle deformation can have a substantial effect on photons in the crystal. This resembles the effect that a magnetic field has on electrons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis principle offers a new approach to slow down light fields and thereby enhance their strength. Realizing this on a chip is particularly important for many applications,\u201d says AMOLF-group leader Ewold Verhagen.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-024-01412-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> their findings in the journal <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>. Simultaneously, a research team from Pennsylvania State University has published an article in the same journal about how they demonstrated\u2014independently from the Dutch team\u2014an identical effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMOLF researchers, in collaboration with Delft University of Technology, have succeeded in bringing light waves to a halt by deforming the two-dimensional photonic crystal that contains them. The researchers show that even a subtle deformation can have a substantial effect on photons in the crystal. This resembles the effect that a magnetic field has on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188088","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}