By eliminating lenses, this advance could benefit a host of applications, including medical imaging, industrial inspection, and art analysis. Researchers have developed a new, focus-free…
Technology advance enables filter-free imaging sensors that are poised to improve low-light and fast imaging for smartphones and autonomous vehicles. Researchers have shown that newly…
Inspired by a concept for discovering exoplanets with a giant space telescope, a team of researchers is developing holographic lenses that render visible and infrared…
The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is the electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, radiation that has been traveling through space and time since the…
Polished glass has been at the center of imaging systems for centuries. Their precise curvature enables lenses to focus light and produce sharp images, whether…
By plating a very thin wafer of silicon with a nanometer-thin layer of gold, applied physicists have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light…
New research into gamma rays has led to a discovery that will make many new applications possible in medicine and materials research. Physicists at the…
As researchers at Ames Laboratory aim to move innovations from the realm of science fiction closer to reality, they developed a method to evaluate different…
By studying the brittlestar Ophiocoma wendtii, whose body is covered with tiny crystalline lenses made of calcium carbonate, scientists were able to create high quality…