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

However, generating circularly polarized light often requires complex and bulky optical set-ups, which hinders its use in systems with space constraints.

Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of small, portable sensors could expand the use of polarized light for drug ...

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

Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in and out of existence that can interact with matter, giving rise to new, ...

Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of small, portable sensors could expand the use of polarized light for drug ...

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 ...

Direct detection of circularly polarized light without a filter as shown in the present result allows for higher sensitivity and miniaturization of photodetectors.

Here we demonstrate a circularly polarized light-detecting organic field-effect transistor based on an asymmetrically pure, helically shaped chiral semiconducting molecule known as a helicene9.

So light from your laptop screen is probably polarized. And though some animals can detect this polarization with their eyes, us humans can't do it without the aid of sunglasses.

Scientists have developed a photodiode using a crystalline film composed of lead perovskite compounds with organic chiral molecules to detect circularly polarized light without a filter. It is ...