Have you ever wished to drive microscopic matter along an arbitrarily tailored trajectory instead of just a circle? That's ...

First look: It's one of the longest-running conundrums of PC gaming: mouse-and-keyboard or controller? One company is trying to go the "why not both" route – in a sense – by creating a mouse that ...

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A team of researchers have extended Berry’s well-known geometric-dynamic decomposition from the wave-evolution phase to a distinct class of wave scattering problems Wave scattering events can now be ...

A new, ultra-thin metasurface is making waves in the world of optics by defying the traditional behavior of light. By combining two innovative geometric phases, researchers have created a surface that ...

The achromatic lens can focus the incident RCP and LCP light onto two distinct positions without chromatic aberration over a wide bandwidth. Credit: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, ...

A research team has demonstrated the first nonlinear metasurface with engineered nonlocality, that simultaneously delivers high‑Q resonance enhancement and pixel‑level control of the wavefront of ...

After Israel brought home the remains of its last hostage from Gaza on Monday, attention turned to the next and more challenging phase of its U.S.-brokered peace plan with Hamas, which should include ...

Precision alignment in semiconductor lithography demands nanometer-scale accuracy, as even minor misalignments between the mask and wafer can drastically impact chip yield. However, existing optical ...

The body of just one Israeli hostage remains in Gaza, nearing the fulfillment of a key plank of President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan for the enclave, but major hurdles exist to a planned ...

Layered metasurfaces trained as optical neural networks enable multifunctional holograms and security features, integrating neural computation principles with nanostructured optics to create a ...