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, ...

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

Researchers use circularly polarized light to control the direction of exciton polaritons in 2D semiconductors, enabling new tools for nanoscale photonics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Directing light along ...

In order to understand the structure and functioning of the brain, neuroscientists need to study the complex, ...

Sunglasses are an important accessory—not only for fashion, but more importantly, for protection. This summer, focus on ...

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light scattered by the universe's very first stars ...

Twisted bowties created with continuous chirality Some of those compounds may compete with current champion materials for circularly polarized light absorption, through which we can push the ...