Flat lenses offer a way to minimize the optical aberrations and astigmatisms that conventional spherical lenses can be prone to, and can potentially open up new applications that traditional lens are ...

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to ...

To design and improve energy storage materials, smart devices, and many more technologies, researchers need to understand their hidden structure and chemistry. Advanced research techniques, such as ...

Edmund Optics' TECHSPEC MWIR (midwave infrared) achromaticlenses can be used by designers and researchers working in the 3-µm to 5-µmspectral region. Providing near-diffraction-limited performance, ...

With the development of photonic chips and nano-optics, the old ground glass lenses can't keep up in the race toward miniaturization. In the search for a suitable replacement, a team from the ...

US engineers have succeeded in creating a near-perfect ‘superlens’ that uses the principles of metamaterials to overcome conventional diffraction limits. The lenses could be used in ...

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DigiLens, of Sunnyvale, California, US, has developed a liquid crystal-based lens that provides customized diffraction gratings depending on which of its layers are 'switched on'. The application ...

(Nanowerk News) To design and improve energy storage materials, smart devices, and many more technologies, researchers need to understand their hidden structure and chemistry. Advanced research ...

Researchers have developed a new and improved version of electron diffraction that offers advanced and unique experimental instrumentation for studying particle acceleration to researchers from all ...