Science Daily

This new imaging technology breaks the rules of optics

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...
pv magazine International

Checkerboard solar cell design for improved light diffraction

A U.K.-Portuguese research group is proposing a new solar cell design based on diffraction gratings – optical components that split and diffract light into several beams. They claim this could lead to ...
EurekAlert!

X-ray Diffraction Pattern (IMAGE)

High-energy X-ray diffraction patterns from a single grain of i-Gd-Cd were taken at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory with the beam parallel to the five-fold axis.
Science Daily

Logic with light: Introducing diffraction casting, optical-based parallel computing

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...
Nanowerk

Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD): Unveiling the Microstructure of Materials at the Nanoscale

What is Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD)? Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), also known as backscatter Kikuchi diffraction (BKD), is a powerful characterization technique used to analyze ...
Scientific American

X-Ray Diffraction Patterns

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