Article updated on 03/03/20 by Ben Pilkington
Harnessing the work in gravitational microlensing, supercomputer modeling and adaptive optics pioneered at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) at the University of California, Berkeley (United States), scientists have discovered two new planets in a solar system very much like our own.
A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has used molecular vibrations, triggered by ultrafast pulses of terahertz radiation, to change a manganite crystal from an electrical insulator into a conductor.
In recent years, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have overcome a major difficulty for using refractive lenses to focus x-rays.
There are few laser-based light sources brighter than T-REX, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) project developed jointly by the NIF & Photon Science Principal Directorate and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Physical Sciences Directorate.
An engineering research team from the University of Utah (United States) has recently developed a new generation of camera lenses that are almost completely flat and offer the possibility for broadband long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging.
By Ben Pilkington
3 Mar 2020
A bio-friendly nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum has been invented by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Liquid crystal displays do not generate light. Think of them as an array of blinds that allow light through when open and not when closed.
Dioptre is a measurement unit that describes the optical power of a lens or a curved mirror. Dioptre can be expressed as the reciprocal value of its focal length in meters.
The big world of classical physics mostly seems sensible: waves are waves and particles are particles, and the moon rises whether anyone watches or not.
A whole new world came to life for Alice when she passed through the looking glass – beetles with bad attitudes, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, smiling cats, talking tiger lilies and much more.