When people look into a mirror, they see an image of themselves behind the glass. That image results from light rays encountering the shiny surface and bouncing back, or reflecting, providing a ...
Neutrons have a set of unique properties that make them better suited than light, electrons, or x-rays for looking at the physics and chemistry going on inside an object. Scientists working out of MIT ...
Researchers from the University of Oxford have for the first time discovered an approach to electrically switch organic LEDs ...
Oh developed the process for manufacturing the new nano-OLEDs together with Tommaso Marcato. “In just one single step, the maximum pixel density is now around 2500 times greater than before,” added ...
Optical microscopes have for a long time played a vital role in biomedical research. Their ability to provide multidimensional structural and functional information about a specimen in a non-invasive ...
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography -- and has captured remarkably sharp test images of the planet Neptune and other ...
Structured light can significantly enhance information capacity, due to its coupling of spatial dimensions and multiple degrees of freedom. In recent years, the combination of structured light ...
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...
Encoding images in photon correlations Simplified experimental setup (a). A conventional intensity image (b) reveals no information about the object, while a correlation image acquired using an ...
It may look like something you’d use for target practice, but this is a new kind of sensor that can detect the presence of all kinds of light—and reacts to it in super-quick time, too. In fact, the ...
New experiments are pushing our understanding of light and optics to the limit and are also opening up new areas of physics and novel applications. (Picture credit: Photodisc) Optics has always been ...