Stimuli-sensitive materials can respond to physical forces with structural phase transitions. This also applies to biopolymer-surfactant mixtures, a study by German and Chinese scientists now reports.

Two optical techniques—light scattering and birefringence—have been used to detect rapid structural changes accompanying the action potentials in two types of non-myelinated nerve fibre. Changes in ...

THE compensation method of obtaining the birefringence of an object seen in a polarizing microscope requires the evaluation of the optical path-difference produced by a known thickness. In elongated ...

Scientists have mapped the immense Vela Supercluster, a colossal structure 300 million light-years wide concealed behind the Milky Way’s dense dust. In another study, researchers found evidence that ...

Warsaw [Poland], April 26 (ANI): Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a surprisingly simple setup based on liquid ...

Abstract: Due to the lateral inscription process, photo-induced birefringence is present in fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) written into photosensitive single mode fiber. The birefringence value is ...

Abstract: In recent years, femtosecond laser direct writing technology has made great progress in integrated quantum photonic circuits due to its advantages of applicability to an extensive range of ...

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