Five years in the making, the nation's largest Matched Index of Refraction facility can make airplane wings, heating pipes and waste containers disappear. Oddly enough, scientists use this ...

Figure 1: Comparison of positive and negative refraction. We made transmission measurements to confirm our structure's predicted negative refraction, using the interfaces of the photonic crystal in ...

Researchers have successfully used a new ionic liquid to synthesize and deposit thin films of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) on glass and quartz surfaces. The GNP-coated surfaces can sense the refractive ...

IBM announced last month that it had fabricated the smallest high-quality line patterns ever created by optical lithography. Jacqueline Hewett spoke to the researchers involved to find out how they ...