{"id":216477,"date":"2025-06-24T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/glass-nanostructures-reflect-nearly-all-visible-light-challenging-photonics-assumptions"},"modified":"2025-06-24T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T07:06:13","slug":"glass-nanostructures-reflect-nearly-all-visible-light-challenging-photonics-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/glass-nanostructures-reflect-nearly-all-visible-light-challenging-photonics-assumptions","title":{"rendered":"Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible light, challenging photonics assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glass-nanostructures-reflect-nearly-all-visible-light-challenging-photonics-assumptions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by SUTD has created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, glass has been a reliable workhorse of optical systems, valued for its transparency and stability. But when it comes to manipulating light at the nanoscale, especially for high-performance optical devices, glass has traditionally taken a backseat to higher refractive index materials. Now, a research team led by Professor Joel Yang from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is reshaping this narrative.<\/p>\n<p>With findings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adv0267\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the team has developed a new method to 3D-print glass structures with nanoscale precision and achieve nearly 100% reflectance in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visible+spectrum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visible spectrum<\/a>. This level of performance is rare for low-refractive-index materials like silica, and it opens up a broader role for glass in nanophotonics, including in wearable optics, integrated displays, and sensors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by SUTD has created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics. For decades, glass has been a reliable workhorse of optical systems, valued for its transparency and stability. But when it comes to manipulating light at the nanoscale, especially for high-performance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,4,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-nanotechnology","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216477","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}