{"id":192765,"date":"2024-07-10T20:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/high-speed-electron-camera-uncovers-a-new-light-twisting-behavior-in-an-ultrathin-material"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:37:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:37:55","slug":"high-speed-electron-camera-uncovers-a-new-light-twisting-behavior-in-an-ultrathin-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/high-speed-electron-camera-uncovers-a-new-light-twisting-behavior-in-an-ultrathin-material","title":{"rendered":"High-speed electron camera uncovers a new \u2018light-twisting\u2019 behavior in an ultrathin material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-speed-electron-camera-uncovers-a-new-light-twisting-behavior-in-an-ultrathin-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While taking snapshots with the high-speed \u201celectron camera\u201d at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory, researchers discovered new behavior in an ultrathin material that offers a promising approach to manipulating light that will be useful for devices that detect, control or emit light, collectively known as optoelectronic devices, and investigating how light is polarized within a material. Optoelectronic devices are used in many technologies that touch our daily lives, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), optical fibers and medical imaging.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in Nano Letters (\u201cGiant Terahertz Birefringence in an Ultrathin Anisotropic Semimetal\u201d), the team, led by SLAC and Stanford professor Aaron Lindenberg, found that when oriented in a specific direction and subjected to linear terahertz radiation, an ultrathin film of tungsten ditelluride, which has desirable properties for polarizing light used in optical devices, circularly polarizes the incoming light.<\/p>\n<p>Snapshot taken by SLAC\u2019s high-speed electron camera, an instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), showing evidence of circular polarization of terahertz light by an ultrathin sample of tungsten ditelluride. (Sie et al., Nano Letters, 8 May 2024) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While taking snapshots with the high-speed \u201celectron camera\u201d at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory, researchers discovered new behavior in an ultrathin material that offers a promising approach to manipulating light that will be useful for devices that detect, control or emit light, collectively known as optoelectronic devices, and investigating how light is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}