If that isn't cool enough, the microscopes we use to look at these thin sections utilize a very special kind of light called "polarized light".That might sound familiar because good sunglasses are ...

To test the theory, the team synthesized the crystal and studied how it interacted with circularly polarized light. As ...

Each mineral type has a specific crystal structure, so they will show up differently in doubled polarized light, but their optical properties will also be specific for that mineral type. That means we ...

Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

Polarized light micrograph of caffeine crystals is a photograph by Nic Van Oudtshoorn which was uploaded on August 7th, 2023. Below is how the photo appeared on the image-hosting platform as of ...

Polarized light micrograph of caffeine crystals is a photograph by Nic Van Oudtshoorn which was uploaded on August 7th, 2023. Below is how the photo appeared on the image-hosting platform as of ...

In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice University have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials ...

The microscope combines polarized fluorescence technology, a valuable tool for measuring the orientation of molecules, with a ...

They shined polarized and unpolarized light at the liquid crystals through a microscope. In polarized light, light waves oscillate in specific directions rather than randomly in all directions, as ...

The researchers realized that the dual-view microscope could also address a limitation of polarized light microscopy, which is that it’s difficult to efficiently illuminate the sample with polarized ...

The team, which includes Johns Hopkins physics professor Robert Leheny and assistant research professor Francesca Serra, discovered they could manipulate the three-dimensional orientation of liquid ...