Ultrafast electron diffraction captures atomic layers twisting in response to light

A pulse of light sets the tempo in the material. Atoms in a crystalline sheet just a few atoms thick begin to move—not ...
Nanowerk

Researchers identify groovy way to beat diffraction limit

Researchers built a silver-grooved chip that channels laser energy into nanometer-spaced peaks, beating the diffraction limit and aiding light-matter studies.
C&EN

Chemistry in Pictures: Diffraction in action

Single-crystal diffraction was invented 100 years ago by Max von Laue. It has since become a workhorse technique for chemists to determine the structures of organometallic complexes and other ...
Ars Technica

New material blocks light from exhibiting diffraction

Scientists have developed a new material that allows light to propagate without diffraction, creating an entirely new type of optical nonlinearity along the way.
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 ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

For the first time, light makes atoms dance in twisting two-dimensional materials

A flash of light has turned a sheet of atoms into a dance floor. In a feat of precision physics, researchers from Cornell and ...
Nanowerk

Dielectric nanocavity concentrates light in a volume 12 times below the diffraction limit

(Nanowerk News) Until recently, it was widely believed among physicists that it was impossible to compress light below the so-called diffraction limit (see fact box), except when using metal ...