The polarization of light can be rotated by almost 6° as it passes through a single sheet of graphene in a magnetic field, according to an international team of physicists. This latest property of ...

Light has always been described as an elegant partnership of electric and magnetic fields, yet for nearly two centuries physicists treated the magnetic side as a quiet background player. New ...

New mmWave designs bring new challenges and attenuator limitations have sparked renewed interest in Faraday rotation solutions, as Greg Rankin explains. Attenuator limitations have sparked renewed ...

Science, New Series, Vol. 166, No. 3905 (Oct. 31, 1969), pp. 596-598 (3 pages) Pioneer 6, which was launched into orbit around the sun on 16 December 1965, was occulted by the sun in the last half of ...

Despite intensive research, the origin of galactic magnetic fields is still unknown. One assumes, however, that they are built up by dynamo processes in which mechanical energy is converted into ...

We experimentally demonstrate an ultra-thin plasmonic optical rotator in the visible regime that induces a polarization rotation that is continuously tunable and switchable by an external magnetic ...

Magnetic fields generate B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) due to Faraday rotation (FR) of the E-mode. Primordial fields, such as those generated in phase transitions in the ...

With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrohysics (MPA) have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in ...

Physicists in Austria and Germany have taken the Faraday effect to a new extreme by rotating the polarization of light by 45° by passing it through an extremely thin film. This “giant Faraday effect” ...

A research team led by Prof. GAO Xiaoming at the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (AIOFM), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently ...