The interaction of a laser with a liquid can cause temperature changes in the liquid from which some properties of the latter can be indirectly obtained. However, from just temperature changes, a ...

Many modern functional devices, like batteries, solar cells or fuel cells, consist of an agglomeration of individual crystallites. The efficiency of the respective device depends largely on the ...

When a laser beam is incident on many small objects such as lycopodium powder, the resulting diffraction pattern is similar to the diffraction pattern of a small circular aperture (Airy's disk pattern ...

A pattern of distorted lines is visible as a reflection in this close-up view of a human eye. By observing the deformation of illumination patterns reflected off the eye's surface, researchers in ...

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 ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have achieved a significant breakthrough by employing scatterometry, a technique originally used to measure semiconductor microstructures, for the analysis of ...

When a laser beam is incident on a narrow opaque object such as a fine wire or a strand of hair, the resulting diffraction pattern is similar to the diffraction pattern of a slit of the same width as ...

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a non-destructive materials characterization technique that uses the diffraction of X-rays by ordered atomic planes to identify crystalline phases and measure structural ...