News tagged with scattered light
Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images
Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...
Apr 23, 2012 |
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High-tech tactic may expose stealthy salmonella
Even the smallest quantity of Salmonella may, in the future, be easily detected with a technology known as SERS, short for "surface-enhanced Raman scattering." U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist ...
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Measuring magnetic fields
(Phys.org) -- Polarized light is a familiar phenomenon, as people who prefer polarized sunglasses can testify. The electric field in a beam of light can vibrate either left-right or up-down, and the scattering ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Combining centuries-old mathematical theorems provides efficient approach for characterizing nanoparticles' shape
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gregg Gallatin, a researcher at the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, has shown that combining a nineteenth century flux theorem with an eighteenth century mathematical operation provides ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Spin-orbit sum rule to speed up X-ray scattering research
A new theory developed by Prof Gerrit van der Laan, from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Diamond Light Source, and published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, provid ...
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Physicists find that an ultrahigh-energy proton looks like a black disk
(PhysOrg.com) -- What does a proton look like? The common answer to this question is that protons are much too small to scatter light, and since light is necessary for us to see things, protons do not “look” ...
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Ecological light scattering film for brand protection, packages and consumer products
Applications of the technology include the ability to label genuine brand products with a technical solution that is difficult to counterfeit. Printers can reduce the use of inks with this method, and advertising agencies ...
Nov 11, 2011 |
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The Nanotechnology of Sundew and English Ivy
Fifteen small sundew plants perch on a window sill, collecting sunlight and eating meat in the lab of Mingjun Zhang on the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus. Sundew plants are carnivores, consuming ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Nanobelts support manipulation of light
(PhysOrg.com) -- They look like 2-by-4s, but the materials being created in a Rice University lab are more suited to construction with light.
Oct 14, 2011 |
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Light can detect pre-cancerous colon cells
After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series of preliminary ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Scientists develop the most advanced computer model to-date of the scattering of polarized light from chiral molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team has described the first calculations of Raman optical activity (ROA) spectra using coupled-cluster theory – one of the most reliable quantum chemical methods ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Physicists control light scattering in graphene
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have learned to control the quantum pathways determining how light scatters in graphene. Controlled ...
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Securing the nation with fingerprinting materials
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers may have found a way to improve Raman spectroscopy as a tool for identifying substances in extremely low concentrations. Potential applications for Raman ...
Nov 09, 2010 |
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Digital embryo gains wings (w/ Video)
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have captured fruit fly development on film, creating the Fly Digital Embryo. In work published today in Nature Methods, they were also the first to cle ...
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Image: The Earth From The Moon
All cameras are susceptible to scattered light. You may have seen scattered light in pictures you have taken looking towards the Sun. Sunlight reflects off the optics and sometimes off the structure of the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2010 |
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