A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Controlling how electromagnetic waves behave as they move through space is essential for technologies like wireless communication, radar, and remote sensing. Engineers have ...

Refraction close refractionProcess by which a wave changes speed and sometimes direction upon entering a denser or less dense medium, eg a light ray changes direction when refracted by a lens. of ...

This news release is available in German. The effect is known from the smart phone: Sun is reflected by the display and hardly anything can be seen. In contrast to this, the glasswing butterfly hardly ...

When light moves from one medium to another as in the figure to the right, it changes direction. it is refracted .A double-periodic array of pairs of parallel gold nanorods is shown to have a negative ...

Ben Bartlett created an array of hexagonal mirrors that can reflect the sun's rays in any pattern and can be created by 3D printing. This 3D-printable hexagonal mirror array was created to apply for ...

I will never contain the whole of it, he said, the mirror too small for the long-necked lamp floating swan-like near the angle of incidence. Never, he said, stepping back from the lectern and ...