Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van ...

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle ...

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when ...

Rigaku Corporation, a global solution partner in X-ray metrology systems and a Group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation ...

X-ray diffraction to obtain high-resolution maps of intra-granular stress in the sandstone. By combining stress mapping with ...

Cool, but not that new. So what about using diffraction with infrared light? Yes, that would be cool, but we can't really see infrared (well, there is a body hack for this).

Diffraction is a classic optical phenomenon accounting for light propagation. The efficient calculation of diffraction is of significant value towards the real-time prediction of light fields. The ...

Negative circuits As with most negative-index phenomena, the key to producing the near-field refocusing effect is to develop the metamaterial. Intrigued by the prospect of beating the diffraction ...

A variety of ultrathin nanomechanical diffraction gratings that have been fashioned from the “wonder material” graphene have been created by an international team of researchers. The team wanted to ...

Diffraction gratings like these have a number of other uses as well; the video also shows a specific pattern being used to focus a telescope for astrophotography, and a few others in the past have ...