A new imaging technology uses polarized 'optical vortices' to provide a detailed, dynamic view of molecules in motion.

Scientists have discovered a centrosymmetric crystal that behaves as though it is chiral – absorbing left- and right-handed ...

Polarized light microscopy works well with birefringent materials, like most organic crystals, which means they refract light differently depending on the direction light travels through it ...

There are many modern variations of optical microscopy, including phase contrast, dark field, polarized light, fluorescence, and confocal microscopy. Other types of microscopes ...

Microdiamonds with nitrogen vacancy centers are increasingly used as biological tracers thanks to the optical fluorescence of NV centers. But the NV centers also can be spin-polarized by low-power ...

In polarized light microscopy, the sample is illuminated with polarized light and the detection of the light is also sensitive to polarization. To achieve this, polarizers are used to control both the ...

Microscopes are of three basic types: optical, electron (or ion), and scanning probe. The modern optical or light microscope was developed in the mid-19th century. Optical microscopes use ...

A new imaging technology from the lab of Matthew Lew at the McKelvey School of Engineering uses polarized “optical vortices” to provide a detailed, dynamic view of molecules in motion.

In polarized light microscopy, the sample is illuminated with polarized light and the detection of the light is also sensitive to polarization. To achieve this, polarizers are used to control both the ...