Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom.

A light-sensitive crystal is opening the door to a new era of “light-written” technology. Arsenic trisulfide can be reshaped ...

Washington State University has acquired a $2.5 million transmission electron microscope (TEM), expanding its ...

Crystalline arsenic trisulfide shows record photorefractive response and can be laser-patterned at 500-nm resolution without ...

At the current rate, the production of digital data far exceeds that of storage capacity, which requires making choices, such as not keeping certain information, or degrading the quality of ...

Researchers from the University of Twente and Harvard University have developed a new way to generate ultraviolet (UV) light ...

Stacking dopants on fingernail-sized silicon wafers is new way to make optical chips. <cap 1> Lindell Williams (left) and Grant Brodnik align an optical fiber with the edge of an integrated photonics ...

Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

Q: What are diffraction gratings? A diffraction grating is an optical component for spectroscopy that splits light into different wavelengths. A typical diffraction grating has thousands of grooves ...

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