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University of Oulu researchers report a 35 % boost in energy output from ferroelectric crystals, advancing bulk photovoltaic ...

Scientists have unlocked a way to read magnetic orientation at record-breaking speeds using terahertz radiation. Modern hard ...

A team of researchers has made an advancement in the field of multifunctional energy harvesting. Their latest study advances ...

Light is closely integrated with our intellectual, philosophical and scientific discourse. The exact nature of light has remained a mystery since we stepped on earth. Newton postulated the corpuscular ...

Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...

Imagine building a Lego tower with perfectly aligned blocks. Each block represents an atom in a tiny crystal, known as a ...

We have this same problem with electric and magnetic fields. Depending on your reference ... but as a moving frame gets closer to the speed of light you get more and more time dilation.

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel experimental platform to measure the electric fields of light trapped between two mirrors with a sub-cycle precision. These electro-optic Fabry ...

The source of this light was the ELBE radiation source at ... First, the terahertz pulses, through their electric field, generate extremely short-lived electric currents in the upper metal layer.

High-energy particle accelerators, such as CERN’s Proton Synchrotron and Brookhaven’s Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, were regarded as the most exciting, well-funded and biggest instruments in ...

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have made a discovery that could pave the way for a transformative era in photonic ...