What happens when a wave passes through some opening? It diffracts – or you like, you could say “bends”. If the size of the opening is comparable to the wavelength of the wave, the bending ...

For thousands of years, thinkers argued about whether light is made of particles or waves. At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists realized it was both: massless particles and waves. An ...

THE increasing application to various radio purposes of ultra-short electric waves of less than 10 m. in wave-length has given a new stimulus to the problem of calculating the field strength at ...

Diffraction phenomena are of fundamental importance for the characterization and analysis of materials in industrial and scientific applications. Prominent examples include X-ray crystallography as ...

Diffraction spikes are caused by interference due to the wave nature of light. The patterns produced depend on the shape of the telescope’s mirror and the number of spider struts.

Plasmonics: A wave without diffraction Date: May 22, 2013 Source: The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Summary: Optical computing could benefit from the recent development of a ...

Diffraction occurs when a wave encounters an obstruction in its path and will change direction, or wrap around it. In ocean waves, we see this occur when a wave encounters an object like a jetty ...

Century-Old Challenge Of “Atomic Diffraction” Finally Solved Thanks To Graphene This experiment is “fundamentally different” from all previous atomic diffraction experiments.