Fresnel diffraction describes the complex light propagation that occurs when a wavefront encounters an abrupt phase change, typically at the boundary of two different media or at an engineered phase ...

Some of the members of the experimental team (those who were present after the last shift at the LCLS). Photo courtesy: K Sokolowski-Tinten Phase-change materials can be reversibly switched between ...

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 72, No. 4 (December 2014), pp. 731-745 (15 pages) An analytical approach is proposed to study the contribution of edge effects in the multiple high-frequency ...

X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a powerful non-destructive analytical technique used to evaluate crystalline materials and determine their structural properties. As one of the most widely used ...