A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science's greatest challenges: uniting the two fundamental theories that explain how our universe works—Einstein's theory of ...

Researchers discovered that crystal dislocations in antiferroelectric PbZrO3 thin films generate ordered polar antihedgehog ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s ...

Physicists have shown that ultra-thin two-dimensional materials such as tungsten diselenide can rotate the polarization of visible light by several degrees at certain wavelengths under small magnetic ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers are working to unlock the immense potential of terahertz waves for applications ranging from medical imaging to wireless communications. However, efficiently controlling ...

Figure 1. Working principle of the conventional and novel pancake optics systems. (a) configuration of the conventional pancake optics. (b) polarization conversion process in the conventional pancake ...

Astronomers using the Australia Telescope Compact Array have mapped polarized radio filaments and wisps inside the Vela X ...

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS Independent manipulations of various properties of EM waves are crucially required in a wide range of ...