illumination

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But generating enough heat from harder to capture wavelengths has traditionally required thick absorbing materials or very bright illumination, making such detectors bulky and slow.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

Light programmable colloidal crystals may eventually enable reconfigurable optical coatings, adaptive sensors, and next generation display and data storage technologies, where patterns and functions are defined dynamically by illumination rather than fixed during manufacturing.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026

Lighting design by Manuel Da Silva, the group’s production manager, provided pools and shafts of illumination to dramatize the darkened stage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

When the sun vanishes early and the chill of darkness comes on deep and fast, there has always been an instinct to gather around a source of warmth and illumination for tales of fearsome happenings.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Phil Latham found the main light switch, and all the marble blazed up under full illumination.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles