This approach offers a path toward realizing smaller, faster components for next-generation computers by taking advantage of an optical phenomenon called "intrinsic optical bistability." ...

This week, in the Journal of Applied Physics, a research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign present their findings regarding the optical and electrical bistability of a ...

"As an origami pattern, it has structural bistability which could be harnessed for metamaterials used in energy trapping or other microelectronic devices." Structural bistability refers to the ...

That behavior is referred to as intrinsic optical bistability. “If the crystals are dark to start with, we need a higher laser power to switch them on and observe emission, but once they emit, they ...

"This behavior is what we call bistability," says Katzenberger. "At the same level of solar radiation, the atmosphere can either be dry or rainy, depending on the preceding state." "We've long ...