The countertop has quartz, plagioclase feldspar, potassium feldspar and biotite ... so they will show up differently in doubled polarized light, but their optical properties will also be specific for ...

Twisted moiré photonic crystals—an advanced type of optical metamaterial—have shown enormous potential in the race to ...

When materials are created on a nanometer scale—just a handful of atoms thick—even the thermal energy present at room ...

Martin Doherty received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust who partially supported this work. He continues to receive funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Radoslaw Wincza does not ...

NAB also freezes several bank accounts, seizes vehicles linked to Bahria Town Pakistan's property tycoon Malik Riaz faces new challenges as National Accountability Bureau of Pakistan announces to ...

Nvidia to use optical tech in networking chips, not GPUs Copper cables currently more reliable than optical connections Nvidia has backed startups working on co-packaged optics for AI chips SAN ...

NEW DELHI: A set of six properties-including some considered serially, such as Ashokan Edict Sites and Chausath Yogini Temples spread across multiple states-have been added to India's tentative ...

Optical sensors are a broad class of device for detecting light intensity. This can be just a simple component for notifying when ambient light levels rise above or fall below a prescribed level ...

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking ...

We introduce a novel high-precision method for oxygen-isotope analysis of iron (oxyhydr)oxides using high-temperature conversion isotope ratio mass spectrometry (HTC-IRMS). In this approach, a finely ...