Halting photons could lead to miniature particle accelerators, improved data transmission
Monday, December 22, 2014 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers at MIT who succeeded last year in creating a material that could trap light and stop it in its tracks have now developed a more fundamental understanding of the process. The new work—which could help explain some basic physical mechanisms—reveals that this behavior is connected to a wide range of other seemingly unrelated phenomena.