Mid- and far-infrared birefringent crystals are key functional materials for polarization control, laser technologies, and ...

Researchers find gravitational lensing has significant effect on cosmic birefringence. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 6, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231102135148.htm ...

With this method, doctors around the world can easily, rapidly and reliably detect malaria, Ebola or HIV to name only a few. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier ...

Over the past decades, researchers have demonstrated conventional solitons, stretched pulses, self-similar pulses, and dissipative solitons by managing the dispersion and nonlinearity of fiber lasers.

Researchers developed a method to reduce uncertainty in cosmic birefringence, sharpening the angle tied to parity violation, ...

Optical polymers have recently been applied to lenses, optical disks, functional films for liquid-crystal displays and various other optical devices because of their ease of processing, lightweight ...

Stimuli-sensitive materials can respond to physical forces with structural phase transitions. This also applies to biopolymer-surfactant mixtures, a study by German and Chinese scientists now reports.

Vacuum birefringence is a weird quantum phenomenon that has only ever been observed on an atomic scale. It occurs when a neutron star is surrounded by a magnetic field so intense, it’s given rise to a ...

This news release is available in German. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier substance; after a wait of a few minutes, the slide is placed on a device that emits ...

ETH researchers led by Raffaele Mezzenga have developed a new diagnostic method. It is based on Birefringence, the ability of substances to change the polarisation state of light. With this method, ...