Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

Researchers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have developed a technique that substantially improves the ...

Researchers are reporting progress on the road to more efficient utilization of solar energy: They have developed an innovative light-harvesting system. In order to convert sunlight into electricity ...

A new way to compress light, designed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, could make optical communications on computer chips more practical. The researchers developed computer ...

Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team is researching how plants adapt their photosynthesis to changing light. They describe a key molecular mechanism that ...

When integrated over PAR, 17.5% of the incident irradiance was back-scattered from the microbial mat. The remaining 82.5% of the energy carried by the incident irradiance was thus absorbed in the mat, ...