Modern life depends on quantum physics. It makes technologies such as GPS navigation, MRI scanners and computer chips ...

A dark point inside a beam of light should not be much of a traveler. Yet in a new experiment, some of those points appeared to move faster than light itself, darting through a wave field before ...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed a new microscopy technique that reconstructs three-dimensional images from significantly fewer measurements, potentially accelerating ...

A conceptual illustration of a glowing pool with blue and orange vortices, representing the measured dark points alongside the honeycomb atomic structure of the hBN material studied. (Courtesy: T ...

Fundamentally, a microscope comprises two subsystems: an illumination system to illuminate the sample and an imaging system that produces a magnified image of the light that has interacted with the ...

Schematic of the imaging process. Incoherent light, modulated by the DMD, is directed into the microscope and focused onto the sample plane by the objective lens, creating structured illumination for ...

A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reports in Nature an unprecedented achievement in electron microscopy: the direct measurement of "dark points" within light waves. By ...

Abstract: We present an innovative optical device, referred to as ring shutter, consisting of 3648 Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) elements arranged in a ring-shaped configuration with an ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled the Metafiber, a breakthrough device that allows ultra-precise, rapid, and compact control of light focus directly within an optical fiber. Unlike traditional ...

Biological membranes are complex, heterogeneous, and dynamic systems that play roles in the compartmentalization and protection of cells from the environment. It is still a challenge to elucidate ...

Traditional electron microscopy techniques include scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), where electrons that interact with the sample are imaged. 4 The ...

From left to right: UC San Diego researchers Zhaowei Liu, Lingyan Shi, Mark Ellisman, Shaya Fainman and Peter Gerstoft received $1 million from the National Science Foundation to create a first-of-its ...