Just as self-driving cars navigate traffic without a human behind the wheel, laboratory instruments are now being developed that can design, carry out and repeat experiments independently, 24 hours a ...

When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their ...

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Just as self-driving cars navigate traffic without a human behind the wheel, laboratory instruments are now being developed that can ...

Optical techniques are methods that use light to probe or control matter. One prominent example is optical spectroscopy, which includes such methods as pump–probe spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and ...

Optical physics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and ...