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🪖 Provisions from pond water? Researchers leverage biomanufacturing to produce food
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-provisions-pond-leverage-biomanufacturing-food.html

Provisions from pond water? Researchers leverage biomanufacturing to produce food
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are exploring a new approach to producing food on demand with unconventional materials. Through the Feedstocks for Food Production (FFP) project, APL is investigating ways to grow edible microbial food by harnessing nonpotable water.

On-chip room-temperature CW lasing from a III-V nanowire integrated with a Si photonic crystal platform
Masato Takiguchi, Takuro Fujii, Hisashi Sumikura, Akihiko Shinya, Shinji Matsuo, Masaya Notomi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05477

On-chip room-temperature CW lasing from a III-V nanowire integrated with a Si photonic crystal platform
We report the demonstration of continuous-wave (CW) lasing at room temperature from a III-V semiconductor nanowire integrated into a Si photonic crystal (PhC) cavity. Conventional hybrid nanowire lasers [M. Takiguchi. et.al., APL Photonics, 2, 046106 (2017)], which typically feature circular nanowire-cross-sections, suffer from a weak optical confinement, preventing CW lasing under ambient conditions. To overcome this limitation, we fabricated nanowires with rectangular cross-sections via dry e…

Spin and Orbital Rashba response in ferroelectric polarized PtSe$_2$/MoSe$_2$/LiNbO$_3$ heterostructures
Armando Pezo, Sylvain Massabeau, Filip Miljevi\'c, Jing Li, Fatima Ibrahim, Matthieu Jamet, Mairbek Chshiev, Jean-Marie George, Henri Jaffr\`es
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16350

Spin and Orbital Rashba response in ferroelectric polarized PtSe$_2$/MoSe$_2$/LiNbO$_3$ heterostructures
Recent studies using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) with spintronic emitters as a source have revealed distinct signatures of the Rashba effect. This effect, which arises from the breaking of inversion symmetry in low-dimensional materials, has been recently investigated in CoFeB/PtSe$_2$/MoSe$_2$/LiNbO$_3$-based heterostructures [S. Massabeau et al., APL Mater. 13, 041102, 2025 ]. The observed phenomena are at the source of the generated THz far-field emission, typically through …