"Fundamental studies of the confinement effect on water's dielectric constant are beneficial to understand and improve current technologies," said LLNL scientist Anh Pham, co-author of the paper.

"Fundamental studies of the confinement effect on water's dielectric constant are beneficial to understand and improve current technologies," says Anh Pham, a computational materials scientist at ...

The paper, by Shuren Hu at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and colleagues was titled, "Experimental realization of deep-subwavelength confinement in dielectric optical resonators." ...

For instance, one study investigated the effects of different ... beam of light generated by a dielectric microsphere that can enhance light intensity and confinement. Whispering-Gallery Modes ...