Turning diffraction into a tool The technique uses a device that can only turn pixels on and off. Conventional thinking suggests that such a system can create only two levels of light intensity. The ...

Scientists have advanced metasurface technology by developing a new design that simultaneously projects holographic images and creates special diffraction patterns with ten-fold rotation symmetry of ...

A once purely mathematical tiling breakthrough has revealed an unexpected optical effect when recreated at the nanoscale.

High-energy X-ray diffraction patterns from a single grain of i-Gd-Cd were taken at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory with the beam parallel to the five-fold axis.

A U.K.-Portuguese research group is proposing a new solar cell design based on diffraction gratings – optical components that split and diffract light into several beams. They claim this could lead to ...

"For us, it became an enabler." By carefully designing patterns smaller than the diffraction limit, the team was able to precisely control how much light reached different parts of the printing area ...