News tagged with optical materials express

New magnetic imaging technique heralds advance in spintronics

Impressive results from experiments at Diamond Light Source on magnetic lensless imaging by Fourier transform holography using extended references have been published today in Optics Express, the journal of the ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Beetle bling: Researchers discover optical secrets of 'metallic' beetles

Costa Rica was once regarded as the poorest of all the colonies of the Spanish Empire, sadly deficient in the silver and gold so coveted by conquistadors. As it turns out, all of the glittering gold and silver ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually. A team of researchers at the ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

The guiding of light: A new metamaterial device steers beams along complex pathways

Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide electromagnetic waves around objects such as the corner ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 8

Light-absorbing nanowires may make better solar panels

(PhysOrg.com) -- A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 6