Abstract: The current fundamental limits such as Shockley–Queisser, ergodic light-trapping limit, diffraction-limited imaging (Abbe diffraction limit), noise in detection, reciprocal optical systems ...

Extreme Engineering covers major construction projects from all around the world. Some are futuristic projects that may never be done, others are projects that are on there way to completion.

Discover ten innovative machines and futuristic vehicles built to master the toughest environments and tasks. From the ...

What takes eight years and $8 billion? Building a new LaGuardia Airport, which now stands exactly where the old LaGuardia stood. What “Extreme Airport Engineering” examines is a kind of magic act, a ...

Follow the race to build a world-class airport on the site of one of America’s busiest flying hubs. In New York City, a team of elite engineers and construction workers are on a mission to build the ...

It examines the concept of constructing a giant tower in Japan that wouldn't be a just a building, but a public city in the sky. At the end it talks about what a fire in the building would be like and ...