A tiny optical component captures multiple polarization images at once, helping telescopes track solar magnetic fields with ...

A new telescope technology—measuring just 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) in diameter—could improve how future space missions study and monitor the sun while simplifying onboard hardware and reducing ...

Co-lead author on the new paper Prachi Thureja, a graduate student in Atwater's group, says to understand their work, first consider the word "metasurface." The root, "meta," comes from a Greek prefix ...

As the global energy crisis intensifies and climate change accelerates, finding sustainable solutions for energy management is increasingly urgent. One promising approach is passive radiative cooling, ...

Fig. 1 Schematic of the hybrid optical meta-freeform system for real-time multi-focal planes AR display. (a) The novel AR system integrates a display screen, a multiplexing metasurface, and a freeform ...