Imagine a clock where the colors aren’t from LEDs but a physics phenomenon – polarization. That’s just what [Mosivers], a physicist and electronics enthusiast, has done with the Polarizer Clo… ...

That is another case in which half the photons will get through a polarizer, and, as always, those that do so become polarized parallel with the polarizer. You can see how polarizers work by ...

A weird thing happens to polarized light if you place a second polarizer oriented at a right angle to the first. That light vanishes. Okay, it doesn't vanish as much as it gets blocked.

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

Even in singly polarized light, some minerals betray their identity. In the image above, the brown mineral is hornblende. Most of the other minerals are white (clear), but hornblende is one of the few ...

A new way of generating linearly polarized photons using quantum dots has been developed by an international team of researchers. The photons are emitted from a quantum dot at the top of a ...

Linearly polarized light restricts visibility to specific angles. ... of the polarizer, which contains iodine-infused Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA), a polarizing absorption layer.

They found that when polarized light was shone through the nanostructures from certain directions, a range of vivid and easily-identifiable colors was reflected back.