High-power laser diode (LD) driven solid-state lighting can generate super-high luminance far exceeding the state-of-art light-emitting diodes (LEDs) source by factors of 2-10, enabling it ...

If you’ve recently been passed down a family member’s glassware collection, you might be curious about some of the pieces with intricate designs. Grandma might have called her catalog her crystal, but ...

Humans have been making glass for thousands of years and have benefited from its many useful properties. However, understanding the glassy state — a solid-like state in which the atoms are in ...

Glasses are neither fluids nor crystals. They are amorphous solids and one of the big puzzles in condensed matter physics. For decades, the question of how glass forms has been a matter of controversy ...

The types of glass that we encounter in everyday life, such as window glass or smartphone screens, are disordered solids. This means that they consist of particles locked in place, like those in ...

MAINZ, Germany, July 1 (UPI) --What accounts for the unique structure of glass? Recently, scientists at Germany's Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz used a combination of light scattering and ...