Stanford researchers have developed the Large-scale Electrophysiology Amplification Platform (LEAP), a wireless, label-free optical system for monitoring the electrical activity of neurons and heart cells.
The Stanford team has developed a method to dynamically control the topography of nano-scale surfaces using soft, responsive polymers, enabling new ways to actively shape the spectral, angular and polarization properties of light in response to electrical and chemical stimuli
Stanford researchers have developed flat, ultrathin (sub 100nm) optical elements based on high index nanostructures which can be alternatives to refractive optical elements such as gratings, lenses, and axicons.
Active manipulation of light beams is required for a range of emerging optical technologies, including sensing, optical computing, virtual/augmented reality, dynamic holography, and computational imaging.
As part of a comprehensive optofluidic platform, researchers at Stanford have developed an integrated dynamic flat-optics system enabling microlens-free metasurface planar light-field displays.
Stanford researchers in the Brongersma Lab have developed an integrated dynamic flat-optics system as part of a comprehensive optofluidic platform, enabling unprecedented compact configurations.
As part of a comprehensive optofluidic platform, researchers at Stanford have developed a new type of reflective display technology for achieving transparent displays, which allow users to receive visual information from the external world through the display at the same time.
Researchers at Stanford have developed an ultracompact, high-quality-factor (high-Q) metasurface that enables more convenient phase contrast imaging. Phase contrast imaging is a critical technique in biology and medicine to image essentially transparent objects such as cells.
This invention facilitates the realization of optical elements with spatially multiplexed/interleaved phase profiles to achieve a high packing density of distinct optical elements on a surface.
Stanford researchers have developed a high efficiency OLED device by nanopatterning the electrode layer to create a high impedance metasurface (HIM) that reduces 'plasmonic' losses. A typical metal cathode traps a large portion of generated light in an OLED.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a simpler and low-cost micro-cavity design for color tuning of organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) for display applications. A micro-cavity is an essential part of OLED display for high color purity.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a dielectric diffraction grating that provides high (near-unity) diffraction efficiencies in an ultra-compact volume.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a multi-wavelength laser with perpendicular polarization, which supports easy and independent measurement in various optical sensors for improved accuracy and speed.