By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered an optical metasurface that controls light to yield a simple and versatile ...

Scientists have discovered a centrosymmetric crystal that behaves as though it is chiral – absorbing left- and right-handed ...

EPFL scientists have developed a new technique that lets researchers watch, with unprecedented sensitivity, how materials ...

In the natural world, many things come in mirror-image pairs. Your left and right hands are a perfect example—they look alike but can’t be perfectly superimposed. This idea, called chirality or ...

Now, a team led by Professor Sascha Feldmann at EPFL’s Laboratory for Energy Materials has developed a high-sensitivity, ...

The insect Anomala albopilosa has an exoskeleton that reflects circularly polarized light. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have coated the surface of its exoskeleton with an electrically ...

If one shines circularly polarized light, which also has a defined angular momentum, through a ferromagnet, a clear difference in transmission for a parallel or anti-parallel alignment of the two ...

Jun 28, 2023: Scientists developed a spherical nano-antenna that forms a near field of circularly polarized light (Nanowerk News) A research team from the Graduate School of Engineering at Kobe ...

While circularly polarized light excites valley charge it does not, however, create a valley current. This situation arises as for each quasi-momentum in the valley.

The LCD Circularly Polarized Light Display technology takes a different approach. It involves stacking a visible light 1/4-wave plate on the outer side (the side facing the viewer) ...