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Checkerboard solar cell design for improved light diffraction

A U.K.-Portuguese research group is proposing a new solar cell design based on diffraction gratings – optical components that split and diffract light into several beams. They claim this could lead to ...
Nature

An azimuthally-modified linear phase grating: Generation of varied radial carpet beams over different diffraction orders with controlled intensity sharing among the generated beams

Diffraction gratings are important optical components and are used in many areas of optics such as in spectroscopy. A diffraction grating is a periodic structure that splits and diffracts the ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Optical metasurface captures solar magnetic fields

The telescope-integrated device reveals the signal in snapshots of polarized sunlight ...
Nature

Improving the homogeneity of diffraction based colours by fabricating periodic patterns with gradient spatial period using Direct Laser Interference Patterning

This study focuses on the development of a strategy to produce periodic structures with a variable spatial period for increasing the homogeneity of structural colours by means of direct laser ...
Science Daily

Logic with light: Introducing diffraction casting, optical-based parallel computing

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...
Phys.org

Using a non-destructive, light diffraction fingerprint technique to detect viral infections in cells

A combined team of engineers from Jiangsu University and Harvard University used a non-destructive, light diffraction fingerprint technique to detect viral infections in cells. Their paper is ...
EurekAlert!

X-ray Diffraction Pattern (IMAGE)

High-energy X-ray diffraction patterns from a single grain of i-Gd-Cd were taken at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory with the beam parallel to the five-fold axis.
EurekAlert!

Light diffraction pattern reflecting off a human eye (IMAGE)

A pattern of distorted lines is visible as a reflection in this close-up view of a human eye. By observing the deformation of illumination patterns reflected off the eye's surface, researchers in ...
Phys.org

Researchers compress light 12 times below the diffraction limit in a dielectric material

Until recently, it was widely believed among physicists that it was impossible to compress light below the so-called diffraction limit (see below), except when using metal nanoparticles, which ...
MSN on MSN

3D printing a diffraction pattern

How a 3D-printed design can create a diffraction pattern in a simple science experiment about optics.
Hackaday

Iridescent Rainbow Chocolate, Just Add Diffraction Grating!

Here’s a great picture from [Jelly & Marshmallows] that shows off the wild effects of melted chocolate poured onto a diffraction grating. A diffraction grating is a kind of optical component whose ...
AZOM

Particle Size Analysis by X-Ray Diffraction

Particle size analysis is crucial to quality control and product development in a number of key industries including aerosols, construction, food and beverage, paint and coatings, and pharmaceuticals.