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A new imaging technique uncovers how electronic patterns in quantum materials evolve unevenly across space and temperature.

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Jordan Roach uses a Raman microscope to examine a sample of U3O8 affixed to carbon tape on an aluminum stub. Roach uses Raman ...

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

In this video I talk about diffraction gratings and how they work. I show you how you can use them to make diffraction ...

The direction in which the electromagnetic field of circularly polarized light rotates can be easily reversed by applying a ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Abstract: Separating diffraction patterns helps in providing detailed information on geological structures. However, the amplitude of weak diffraction is difficult to preserve and often destroyed ...

If you think “instantaneous” happens in a second, you should meet Haiwang Yong. An assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California San Diego, Yong uses ultrafast spectroscopy to ...