Validation of the LIG Nanowise SMAL lens revealed its ability to resolve features down to 137 nm, demonstrating true ...

Abstract: Second order diffraction effects often occur in hyperspectral instruments with dispersive elements. These second (and higher) order diffractions are typically unwanted, and should therefore ...

Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...

Physicists have finally watched positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, behave like a rippling quantum wave instead of a tiny billiard ball. In a set of ...

At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...