Sentences with phrase «absorb light far»

People have designed materials that absorb light far more efficiently.

Not exact matches

Solar cells, for example, would be far more efficient if they reflected less light and absorbed more of it as energy.

But the need for pigment to provide this extra protection waned as modern human populations migrated northward over the past 60,000 years or so, while the need to absorb UVB light became greater, particularly for those humans who migrated to the far North behind retreating glaciers less than 10,000 years ago.

But the need for pigment to provide this extra protection waned as modern human populations migrated northward over the past 60,000 years or so, Elias said, while the need to absorb UVB light became greater, particularly for those humans who migrated to the far North behind retreating glaciers less than 10,000 years ago.

Dark matter's presence has for decades been inferred from its gravitational effects on large - scale structures such as galaxy clusters, but because it does not interact much with ordinary matter and does not emit or absorb light — hence the «dark» moniker — it has so far proved impossible to observe firsthand.

A collection of metamaterial rings efficiently absorbs microwave radiation the way black holes gobble up matter and light, and an optical - light analogue may not be far behind

«Further research to shed more light on the spread of thioarsenates is now even more urgent since we were able to show for the first time that thioarsenates can be absorbed by plants and are harmful to them.»

Eight bright X-ray sources located far beyond the galaxy at distances of hundreds of millions of light - years were observed with Chandra, which revealed that the X-rays from these distant sources are absorbed selectively by oxygen ions in the vicinity of our galaxy.

That means the surface absorbs far more heat from the sun, instead of reflecting light back into space.

Some ghost GRBs also may be so far away that many wavelengths of light emitted by them may become absorbed by intergalactic gas.

Without getting too far into the weeds, our cells are given an energy boost when they absorb light, specifically red wavelengths at 660 nm and near infrared wavelengths at 850 nm.

The main reason that the black silicon performs so well is that the nano - structures make the cells far less reflective, which allow them to absorb more light.

In the heavier denser liquid water of the ocean transit is slowed down even further, some fourteen times more than in our atmosphere, as water being a transparent medium for visible light transmits it through unchanged but delays it in each encounter as it tries to absorb it but can't.

The retreat exposes soil, rock, and ocean surfaces, which absorb light and heat, causing further melting.10, 11 (See Jakobshavn Isbræ and Helheim glacier hotspots for more information on albedo.)

Earlier in his paper, Postma (page 5) states: «If the source of light is constant, meaning it shines with the same unchanging brightness all the time, then the blackbody absorbing that light will warm up to some maximum temperature corresponding to the energy in the light, and then warm up no further.

But in light of bebe and Charlotte Russe's recent announcement to curb 2004 expansion, he says a further, possibly larger, round of Eddie Bauer closings would not be so easy to absorb.