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diffraction

[dih-frak-shuhn] / dɪˈfræk ʃən /


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Using this concept, the team designed and experimentally demonstrated a three dimensional singular dielectric resonator capable of confining light below the diffraction limit in all three spatial dimensions.

From Science Daily May 21, 2026

This method involves scanning a nanoscale beam of high energy electrons across the material and recording the diffraction patterns that result.

From Science Daily May 4, 2026

Because both components have equal mass, researchers have long sought to understand how such a system would behave when forming a beam and undergoing diffraction.

From Science Daily Apr. 28, 2026

Conducting the experiment in an ultra-high vacuum kept the graphene surface clean, allowing the diffraction pattern to be observed more clearly.

From Science Daily Apr. 28, 2026

For almost forty years Bragg, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of crystallography, had been watching X-ray diffraction methods solve structures of ever-increasing difficulty.*

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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