Futuristic Glass Technology Paves Way for Energy-Efficient Buildings

What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That’s the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in a collaboration with Tokyo Tech scientists, aimed to answer in her thesis work when she made the discovery. Its a discovery that may one day turn windows into single material light-harvesting and sensing devices and perhaps a new semiconductor material. The physicists propose a novel way to create photoconductive circuits, where the circuit is directly…