---
title: "Meet the Nanoscale Device That Can Emit Light as Powerfully as an Object 10,000 Times Its Size"
description: "This advance could have huge implications for a variety of imaging and energy applications."
date: "2015-07-14"
modified: "2015-07-14"
authors:
  - name: "Andreea Popescu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/andreeathecat"
url: "https://futurism.com/meet-the-nanoscale-device-that-can-emit-light-as-powerfully-as-an-object-10000-times-its-size"
categories:
  - "Future Materials"
  - "Nanotech"
  - "Science & Energy"
---

# Meet the Nanoscale Device That Can Emit Light as Powerfully as an Object 10,000 Times Its Size

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/light.jpg>)

- The nanoscale device drastically outpaces previous technology in its ability to scatter light. They showed how a single nanoresonator can manipulate light to cast a very large "reflection.”
- The nanoresonator's capacity to absorb and emit light energy is such that it can make itself—and, in applications, other very small things—appear 10,000 times as large as its physical size.
- Given the nanoresonator's capacity to absorb large amounts of light energy, the technology also has potential in applications that harvest the sun's energy with high efficiency.