{"id":223992,"date":"2025-10-25T04:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-create-the-smallest-pixel-in-the-world-so-far"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:16:35","slug":"physicists-create-the-smallest-pixel-in-the-world-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-create-the-smallest-pixel-in-the-world-so-far","title":{"rendered":"Physicists create the smallest pixel in the world (so far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-the-smallest-pixel-in-the-world-so-far2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smart glasses that display information directly in the field of vision are considered a key technology of the future\u2014but until now, their use has often failed due to cumbersome technology. However, efficient light-emitting pixels are ruled out by classical optics if their size is reduced to the wavelength of the emitted light.<\/p>\n<p>Now, physicists at Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg (JMU) have taken a decisive step toward luminous miniature displays and, with the help of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+antennas\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical antennas<\/a>, have created the world\u2019s smallest <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pixel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pixel<\/a> to date.<\/p>\n<p>A research group led by Professors Jens Pflaum and Bert Hecht was responsible for the work; the group has now published the results of their work in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz8579\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science Advances<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart glasses that display information directly in the field of vision are considered a key technology of the future\u2014but until now, their use has often failed due to cumbersome technology. However, efficient light-emitting pixels are ruled out by classical optics if their size is reduced to the wavelength of the emitted light. Now, physicists at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223992","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=223992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}