A portable laser device is being developed at Heriot-Watt that can instantly identify chemical hazards, increasing the s…

LMU/MPQ-physicists succeed in realizing an analogue of the Meissner effect by measuring edge currents in a ladder-like crystal of light.

When a superconductor is exposed to a magnetic field, a current on its surface appears which creates a counter field tha…

Research by the Molecular Spectroscopy Group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, in collaboration with the SCIC, is published in the journal ACS Photonics.

The aim with respect to hybrid materials with one organic component and another inorganic one is to combine the best att…

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has caught a cen…

Researchers modeled virtual periscope on astronomers’ technology used to counter blurring and distortion caused by layers of atmosphere when viewing stars

The heart of the underwater imaging system is a camera, a pinhole array to admit light (a thin metal sheet with precise,…

For the last century, the concept of crystals has been a mainstay of solid-state physics. Crystals are paragons of order…

Researchers show momentum and position of quantum system can be determined using technique from signal processing

In quantum physics, momentum and position are an example of conjugate variables. This means they are connected by Heisen…

The metamaterials were created with nonlinear optical response a million times as strong as traditional nonlinear materi…

Researchers have developed a way for superconducting quantum chips to talk to each other over large distances through an…

Successful introduction of BG6x filters: leading international smartphone manufacturers rely on SCHOTT quality

The filters of the specialty glass manufacturer SCHOTT are built into image sensors of high-tech cameras and boast sever…

The light-warping structures known as metamaterials have a new trick in their ever-expanding repertoire. Researchers at…

Scientists have found that two-dimensional nanostructures with asymmetric design enable a new quantum mechanism, trigger…

Various glasses with low dispersion in refractive index level 0.5 now available

This glass is intended for use in the high-quality lenses of single-lens reflex cameras in which apochromatic color aber…

Surface plasmon polaritons are waves that propagate along the surface of a conductor and collective oscillation of elect…

Calcium Fluoride features low solubility and superior hardness

Featuring a low Index of Refraction, high laser damage threshold and low axial and radial-stress birefringence makes the…

The alignment turning station ensures precision and flexibility for the production of mounted lenses

It machines the lens mount in such a way that the axis of symmetry of the mount is in line with the optical axis of the…

For nearly a century, electrophoretic deposition (EPD) has been used as a method of coating material by depositing parti…

Ideal Invisibility Cloaks for Visible Light in Diffusive Media / Simple Setup Produces Surprising Results

Real invisibility cloaks are rather complex and work in certain situations only. The laws of physics prevent an optical…

A new study shows that light transmitted through apertures smaller than the wavelength of light go through a radical cha…

JILA researchers have engineered a short, flexible, reusable probe for the atomic force microscope (AFM) that enables st…