A property of a material that changes the speed of light, computed as the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light through the material. When light travels at an angle between two ...

The speed of light varies in materials, impacting fiber optics, laser systems, and semiconductor lithography through complex ...

(Nanowerk News) Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon cover, voted the greatest classical rock album of all time, intended to portray the prism and dispersion of light into a rainbow as a certain ...

The Fisher Scientific™ Abbe Bench-top Refractometer measures refractive indices of liquid and solid samples at D-line (589nm), featuring a combination of the Brix and refractive index (nD) ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Engineers at Purdue University are the first researchers to create a material that has a "negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications, a ...

Toyohashi University of Technology researchers in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have developed a new material capable of retaining high transmissivity after thermal ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Manipulating light is crucial for modern technologies, from the optical fibers transmitting internet data to the lasers in our smartphones. Despite significant advancements, our ...

Physicists at Harvard University in the US have built a silicon waveguide that exhibits a refractive index of, or close to, zero when operating at near-infrared telecom wavelengths. The waveguide can ...

Nanoscale optical components, such as lenses and waveguides, are used in imaging and computing platforms. Yet it’s challenging to make these components with more than one refractive index—a property ...

Nitto Denko Corp have developed a thermosetting resin with the highest refractive index in the world. It recorded a value of 1.76 while maintaining excellent thermal resistance and processing ...