By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered ...

EPFL scientists have developed a new technique that lets researchers watch, with unprecedented sensitivity, how materials emit polarized light over time.

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, scientists have engineered an ...

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

Tsukuba, Japan—Some beetles, such as Anomala albopilosa, strongly reflect left circularly polarized light (electromagnetic waves that oscillate leftward relative to the direction of light ...

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 ...

On-chip measurement of circularly polarized light (CPL) is essential for various applications, but filterless integrated CPL photodetectors often struggle with poor discrimination capabilities. To ...

After passing through the polarization filter, the partially circularly or elliptically polarized soft-x-ray light can be employed for the actual XMCD experiment on a magnetic sample.

These particles can enhance both incident electric and magnetic fields, making them "dual" nano-antennas. The researchers demonstrated that these particles could preserve the helicity (handedness of ...

Moreover, for users who wear polarized sunglasses while viewing screens, only natural light and circularly polarized light can ensure screen visibility at any orientation when sunglasses are rotated.

Full control over light induced valley currents, their magnitude and direction, thus requires going beyond the spin-valley locking paradigm of circularly polarized light.