Sentences with phrase «of a certain wavelength»

Light of a certain wavelength can be used to put so - called active materials into motion and control their movement.

A key problem with solar cells is that they only capture photons of certain wavelengths.

Ordinary lasers work by bouncing light between two mirrors, so photons of a certain wavelength accumulate.

However, depending on the width of the waveguide, waves of a certain wavelength travel

The reflective layer of the window contains organic liquid crystals, like those familiar to us in our smartphones, which can selectively reflect light of a certain wavelength if they are arranged in a special way.

For example, they could make inks that might have to be heated or exposed to light of a certain wavelength before the information would be visible using the appropriate terahertz radiation.

This gap affects how photons propagate through the material with light of certain wavelength ranges being able to pass through while light in other ranges is reflected.

Laser surgery uses a beam of a certain wavelength of light to cut tissue instead of using a scalpel blade.

Scientists hope that carbon may make a more efficient band - gap material — a material that excludes light of certain wavelengths and is therefore the photonic counterpart of a semiconductor — in future optoelectronics applications.

The first method requires a complex ligand, or compound, that strongly binds to a metal ion in a way that would allow for the complex to emit light of certain wavelength.

In a peacock's mother - of - pearl tail, precisely arranged hairline grooves reflect light of certain wavelengths.