Digital light processing, or DLP, produces sharper and brighter images for television, cinema and computer screens. The system projects light using a digital micromirror device, or DMD, a chip that ...

Carbon nanotubes can glow brilliantly when light is absorbed by a flat sheet of atoms acting as an antenna to direct that energy into the tubes. This breakthrough might help create future tiny ...

In a recent article published in Nature communications*, researchers described a technique of capturing two-dimensional (2D) light patterns into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and using high-throughput ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter systems has driven researchers to an unlikely ally—light itself.

When one first hears about digital light processing (DLP), it seems almost impossibly complex, even magical — millions of tiny mirrors on a chip the size of your thumbnail, each of them capable of ...