diffraction
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The neural network is trained using two complementary diffraction images, one captured with a vertical polarizer and one without.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
This effectively compressed the light into a region much smaller than its wavelength, allowing it to bypass the diffraction limit and reveal much finer details.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
Instead of focusing light through glass, the system uses an array of coded sensors placed at different locations within a diffraction plane.
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
There, he became interested in the new technique of diffraction, in which X-rays were bounced off atoms to reveal their inner structures.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025
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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