EPFL scientists have developed a new technique that lets researchers watch, with unprecedented sensitivity, how materials ...

Now, a team led by Professor Sascha Feldmann at EPFL’s Laboratory for Energy Materials has developed a high-sensitivity, ...

Scientists have discovered a centrosymmetric crystal that behaves as though it is chiral – absorbing left- and right-handed circularly-polarized light differently. This counterintuitive finding, from ...

Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

Left and right circularly polarized light, where the electromagnetic waves spiral in a clockwise and counterclockwise manner ...

In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice University have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials ...

Researchers use circularly polarized light to control the direction of exciton polaritons in 2D semiconductors, enabling new ...

In the natural world, many things come in mirror-image pairs. Your left and right hands are a perfect example—they look alike but can’t be perfectly superimposed.

Tsukuba, Japan—Some beetles, such as Anomala albopilosa, strongly reflect left circularly polarized light (electromagnetic waves that oscillate leftward relative to the direction of light ...

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's earliest epoch. Their observations could give them a better understanding of ...

While dung beetles are known to use polarized light from the moon and even stars to keep their balls rolling in a straight line, this is the first time an animal has been shown to navigate by ...