With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Matin Durrani argues the case for the ...
Test for echo: schematic diagram of an object to be imaged (blue blob) and illumination source (concentric circles) inside a randomly shaped cavity. The detector is represented by the two parallel ...
What is the Diffraction Limit? The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical microscopy that sets the minimum size of features that can be resolved using conventional light microscopes. It ...