Dealing with this volume of plastic garbage is already a tremendous challenge, but the discovery of microplastics in isolated ...

Plasmonic nanogap confinement extends sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy to the nanoscale, enabling direct imaging of molecular orientation at interfaces. (Nanowerk News) Sum-frequency generation ...

Physicists achieve major leap in precision and accuracy at extremely low light levels. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have successfully developed a new technique for ...

Periodic signal analysis enhances optics and photonics experiments using lock-in amplifiers and boxcar techniques.