After decades of physics-based theorizing, researchers have succeeded in creating a novel optical metamaterial using conventional materials. Its enhanced electromagnetic effect may make true one-way ...

Researchers have discovered how to make an optical metamaterial that would underpin a variety of new technologies. A new approach has allowed researchers at Aalto University to create a kind of ...

Long before engineers were chasing the promise of digital overlays, Benjamin Franklin was grappling with a problem of human vision. By 1784, having grown tired of fumbling between two pairs of ...

Glass science has evolved into a multidisciplinary field that interrogates the unique structural, chemical, and optical properties of glass materials. Owing to their inherent disorder and ...

Optics and photonics society SPIE has chosen Schott as the winner of its latest “Catalyst Award”, after the Germany-headquartered glass giant showed it is possible to make optical-grade glass with ...