A wooden housing with metal handle on top, cardboard backing, translucent plastic front panel with fuel cell diagram. A circular fluorescent tube mounted inside the unit provides backlight for the ...

EPFL scientists have developed a new technique that lets researchers watch, with unprecedented sensitivity, how materials ...

Now, a team led by Professor Sascha Feldmann at EPFL’s Laboratory for Energy Materials has developed a high-sensitivity, ...

Scientists have discovered a centrosymmetric crystal that behaves as though it is chiral – absorbing left- and right-handed ...

News and Comment DNA droplets shuffle in the spotlight When exposed to polarized light, DNA condensate droplets with molecular photoswitches undergo life-inspired shape changes and motion.

In this paper, we predict an unexpected perfect optical absorption phenomenon of oblique-incident transverse magnetic polarized light in a metallic grating situated in asymmetric surroundings. Two ...

Angular reflection spectra of 1D arrays of grooves in a metal film in the Kretschmann configuration has been studied numerically. The case of a wave incident in the plane parallel to the grooves has ...

SCATMECH is an object-oriented C++ class library developed to distribute models for light scattering applications. Included in the library are models for diffuse surface scattering that predict the ...

Irradiation with circularly polarized light of a film of an achiral azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer induces chirality. Circularly polarized light with opposite handedness produces enantiomeric ...