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Assistant Professor, Michigan Tech, USA, 2012-present Assistant Research Scientist, Michigan Tech, USA, 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Torino, Italy, 2005-2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, ...

Non-cubic crystals are termed anisotropic. They both split and perpendicularly polarize ... pleochroism or simply variations in path length or color zoning (or even colored inclusions), a dichroscope ...