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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

To test the theory, the team synthesized the crystal and studied how it interacted with circularly polarized light. As predicted, the crystal absorbed one direction of light more than the ...

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 ...

Doubling down on metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light by Anne J. Manning, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Editors' notes ...

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 ...

Red light therapy is a home-based photobiomodulation system that uses visible and/or near-infrared light to address skin concerns, Chris G. Adigun, MD, a board-certified dermatologist at ...