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device used to focus light using diffraction
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zone plate

Summary

zone plate ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel is named after zone plate[2].
  • zone plate's subclass of is recorded as optical component[3].
  • zone plate's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03n6g6[4].
  • zone plate's uses is recorded as diffraction[5].
  • zone plate's World of Physics ID is recorded as ZonePlate[6].
  • zone plate's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 32623475[7].
  • zone plate's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C32623475[8].
  • zone plate's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 498780[9].
  • zone plate's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 133580[10].

Why It Matters

zone plate ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_zone-plate_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{zone plate}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/zone-plate}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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