The University of Oxford has invented a way to make 3D photonic crystals. Oxford has developed a technique which utilises the interference pattern between four laser beams to produce a custom lattice ...

Aim is to provide “lotus effects” and other laser-created microstructures for wings, biological implants and more. Laser-generated “lotus effects“ can be transferred quickly to technical surfaces. A ...

Modern light interference technologies developed in Dresden, Germany, are enabling “lotus effects” and other refined structural features from the natural world to be transferred quickly to technical ...

In a first, scientists have shown that they can send light through “slits in time” in time. The new experiment is a twist on a 220-year-old demonstration, in which light shines through two slits in a ...