New sapphire nanostructures created at UT Austin repel dust, glare, and fog while staying durable. Inspired by nature, these ...

sapphire laser published in the journal Nature. "Instead of one large and expensive laser, any lab might soon have hundreds of these valuable lasers on a single chip. And you can fuel it all with ...

Using a hydraulic press containing two sapphire anvils, a team was able to create sub-nanometer thick sheets of different metals — these sheets had diameters exceeding 0.1 mm, orders of ...

Researchers have discovered techniques to bestow superpowers upon sapphire, a material that most of us think of as just a pretty jewel. A phone screen you can't scratch no matter how many times ...

Published in the journal Nature, the study reveals that the prototype is 10,000 times smaller and 1,000 times cheaper than conventional Ti:sapphire lasers. “This is a complete departure from the ...