(Nanowerk Spotlight) Manipulating light is crucial for modern technologies, from the optical fibers transmitting internet data to the lasers in our smartphones. Despite significant advancements, our ...

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A property of a material that changes the speed of light, computed as the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light through the material. When light travels at an angle between two ...

Researchers at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) and BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (BOE) have developed a novel type of transparent organic–inorganic hybrid photoresist with highly ...

Researchers at Harvard University, working with collaborators at the University of Lisbon, discovered that low-index silica ...

Goeroptics, a world's leading AR&MR solution provider, unveiled a suite of advanced XR optical solutions at SPIE AR|VR|MR 2026. The company debut its ...

The Brix scale, derived from the refractive index of a solution at 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit), is widely known. Originally, it was established by determining the weight percentage of sucrose ...