From computer chips to image sensors in cameras, today's technology is overwhelmingly based on a semiconductor called silicon. This technology has been shrinking for decades—think of early room-sized ...

Materials are known to interact with electromagnetic fields in different ways, which reflect their structures and underlying ...

Several Class XII students across the city raised concerns over the unusually difficult physics paper in this year's board ...

After almost 44 years of academic service, the country’s first ever Optica Fellow is just getting started. Light is a peculiar thing to study. In the 1700s, Isaac Newton believed that light was made ...

Short circuits happen when an electrical current takes a “shortcut” back to the electrical panel instead of feeding the load ...