Combine a garden-variety green laser, microwaves with roughly the energy of your wi-fi, and some diamond dust in drops of water, and what do you get? A precise chemical detection tool.

Researchers have developed a new optical computing material from photon avalanching nanoparticles. A research team co-led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, ...

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Research on photon avalanching nanoparticles shows intrinsic optical bistability, offering new avenues for nanoscale optical ...

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But new research from a team of chemists ... said John Hartwig, a UC Berkeley chemist who was a co-author of the study ...