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July 20, 2015

Trapped light orbits within an intriguing material
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2015
Light becomes trapped as it orbits within tiny granules of a crystalline material that has increasingly intrigued physicists, a team led by University of California, San Diego, physics professor Michael Fogler has found. Hexagonal boron nitride, stacked layers of boron and nitrogen atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has recently been found to bend electromagnetic energy in unusual and potentially useful ways. Last year Fogler and colleagues demonstrated that light could be stored within nanosc ... read more

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