Sentences with phrase «particular wavelengths of»

But the material of the condom may be blocking the certain particular wavelengths of IR radiation that is absorbed by CO2.

«Greenhouse gases which are present in the atmosphere absorb and re-emit particular wavelengths of radiation, under particular conditions.

In their proof - of - principle experiment, the researchers used germanium antimony telluride (GST)-- the kind of phase - change material found in CDs and DVDs — to make an improved switchable metasurface that can block or transmit particular wavelengths of light at the command of light pulses.

Now, new observations of a particular wavelength of infrared light from that galaxy betrays the presence of oxygen atoms that have two electrons missing (in the smaller region depicted in green), researchers report online today in Science.

Sleep scientists have found that when specific light receptors in our eyes are exposed to a particular wavelength of blue light, we feel more alert because the brain suppresses melatonin, a key hormone in regulating sleep.

Photoactivated localization microscopy incorporates into a sample special fluorescent proteins that can be toggled between on and off states when hit with a particular wavelength of light.

After decades of effort, physicists have probed the inner workings of atoms of antihydrogen — the antimatter version of hydrogen — by measuring for the first time a particular wavelength of light that they absorb.

After decades of effort, physicists have probed the inner working of atoms of antihydrogen — the antimatter version of hydrogen — by measuring for the first time a particular wavelength of light that they absorb.

«Depending on the exact size and spacing of the holes, a particular wavelength of light reflects off the edge of the cavity and gets trapped inside,» says Gopinath, the lead author of the study.

Not exact matches

It is a characteristic of these «spectral colors» that they can not be further resolved into constituent hues by passage through another prism; that they stand in a one - to - one correspondence with a particular angle of refraction (i.e., with a spatial property); and that, in the context of physical optics, each turns out to be quantifiable in terms of a spatial periodicity (the wavelength).

It is clear that, by setting the arbitrary constants in (2) equal to the particular values a, b, c in (1), the hue scale will be in the units of wavelength.

The Dalian Coherent Light Source, whose completion was announced today in Beijing, has a twist that makes it unique: It is the only large laser light source in the world dedicated to the particular range of short - wavelength light called vacuum ultraviolet, which makes it «a new tool for the detection and analysis of molecules undergoing chemical reactions,» says Alec Wodtke, a physical chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and the University of Göttingen in Germany..

This involves determining the composition of a planetary atmosphere by measuring its spectra, the distinctive radiation that gases absorb at their own particular wavelengths.

Unlike pigments, which create color by absorbing some wavelengths of light and reflecting the rest, the nanostructures are shaped so that they physically bend and scatter light in different directions, sending particular colors back to our eyes.

The details of how each artificial material works, and the kinds of engineered elements it requires, vary with the particular wavelength being manipulated.

Displayed on screen, the data looked like blips on a heart monitor; each wiggle indicated that some molecule in the nebula had emitted light of a particular wavelength.

Sky surveys and mappings of the various wavelength bands of electromagnetic radiation (in particular 21 - cm emission) have yielded much information on the content and character of the universe's structure.

The gratings act as mirrors, reflecting SAWs of particular wavelengths back and forth so that they resonate in the gap.

Since different elements and compounds absorb light at characteristic wavelengths, astronomers can determine what chemicals make up a planet's atmosphere by measuring the relative amounts of light that come in at particular wavelengths.

With the right choice of wavelength, or equivalently, its frequency, the laser light causes plasmons of a particular frequency to oscillate back and forth, or resonate, along the gap, like the reverberations of a plucked guitar string.

In addition to inorganic fillers they can also contain photoactive organic resins which react to light of a particular wavelength and readily solidify.

The dyes converge onto the diseased cells, and when doctors shine a light of a particular wavelength onto the cancerous area, the dye glows.

This wavelength is of particular interest to optical communications, which uses devices such as fiber optics to transmit information in light.

As x-ray astronomers report in the current issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, the intensity of one particular x-ray wavelength may show how fast a black hole is devouring matter from its surroundings: the weaker the x-rays, the more voracious the hole.

The next step was to examine the plants» photoreceptors, molecules that detect light of particular wavelengths.

The researchers used a combination of numerical simulations and optical spectroscopy techniques to identify particular nanoparticle superlattices that absorb specific wavelengths of visible light.

The possibility of such cells has been debated at least since the 1950s, when researchers found single neurons in the visual cortex of cats and other animals that respond to simple stimuli, such as lines oriented at a certain angle or moving in a specific direction, or light of a particular wavelength.

Light rays that reflect off of the top and bottom of the film combine to amplify particular wavelengths, an effect known as constructive interference.

Each photopigment is sensitive to light of a particular wavelength, and the primate visual system detects colors by comparing the relative activity of cells in the retina that bear each of the three photopigments.

In particular, this is the case for special ultra-thin glass fibers which have a diameter of only a few hundred nanometers (one nanometer is a millionth part of a millimeter) and which are thereby smaller than the wavelength of light.

Planets with atmospheres are able to warp starlight in another way: while the body of the planet blocks a big chunk of starlight as it crosses in front of its host star, the planet's thin, enveloping atmosphere absorbs starlight at particular colors, or wavelengths.

The SPT is designed to conduct low - noise, high - resolution surveys of the sky at millimeter (mm) and submillimeter (submm) wavelengths, with the particular design goal of making ultra-sensitive measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

The radio telescopes operated continuously at a wavelength of 10.7 centimetres, which is an ideal wavelength for monitoring solar activity due to the Sun's particular chemical composition.

In this particular case, the «cat» is made of a standing wave of two separate wavelengths of microwave light confined in two cavities, such that hundreds of particles simultaneously exhibit two distinctly different «states.»

They absorb particular colors (or wavelengths) of light.

That first quasar and others identified later puzzled astronomers because, when their light was analyzed to find the characteristic «signature» of emission at specific wavelengths shown by particular atoms, the pattern was at first indecipherable.

Each receiver type is sensitive to a particular «band», or range of wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and data can only be taken in one band at a time.

We tentatively detected radius variations with wavelength for both planets, in particular in the case of WASP - 45 b we found a slightly larger absorption in the redder bands than in the bluer ones.

The molecular structure of CO2 is such that it is «tuned» to the wavelengths of infrared (heat) radiation emitted by the Earth's surface back into space, in particular to the 15 micrometer band.

We wear white thanks to the most influential fashion designers who choose that particular colour every S / S season for a very good reason — it reflects wavelengths of light rather than absorbing them.

If you're not on the wavelength of Darren Aronofsky's particular artistic / environmentalist / religious anxieties, there's not much to recommend in this movie at all.

-- Matt Trask, a secondary senior physics teacher is having students make musical instruments to learn about wavelength — Kelly Skehill using design and software for students to apply calculus models to create new pop bottle designs — teachers are using technology to capture assessment information during the learning process — one particular good example at PJ Elementary — Kindergarten teacher (Sonia Southam) using iPads to engage parents and transform communication by capturing daily learning and sharing immediately via email with parents — the creation of Gleneagles Learning Lab Open House to showcase the process of learning — a teacher created Social Dynamics course for students with high functioning autism — the creation of an outdoor learning program for grades 6/7 students at Bowen Island Community School (Scott Slater created) that has students blending in - class and outdoor learning experiences

The so - called «Venus Patrol Orientation Program» was the first event where Venus Patrol bared its face to the wider public, and included the release of the «Venus Patrol Orientation Manual», a print zine produced with the help of Oscar Barda and Théo Kuperholc that attempted to tune audiences toward Venus Patrol's particular wavelength & perspective on videogame culture.

The origin for such references are found in the way that the energy (wavelengths), from a particular color, generates feeling; a physiological change produced by the wavelength (energy), of a particular color or colors.

I think the detector for this instrument was HgCdTe — a ternary semiconductor that can be tailored to absorb a particular wavelength range by varying the amounts of Hg and Cd.

As the radiation in that particular wavelength band is used up, the amount left for absorption by more of the gas is reduced.

Abstract: «Persistent episodes of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere summer have been shown to be associated with the presence of high - amplitude quasi-stationary atmospheric Rossby waves within a particular wavelength range (zonal wavenumber 6 — 8).

If there is a greater density of CO2 molecules, then the probability of a particular photon, at one of these wavelengths that CO2 absorbs, coming across a CO2 molecule, is clearly increased.

One can also refer to monochromatic (spectral) fluxes and intensities, which is the flux or intensity at a particular frequency ν (or wavelength λ, or photon energy E) per unit of the spectrum (per interval of ν or λ or E, or even per unit log (ν), etc.).

However, The spectral absorption of particular wavelength increases, not linearly, but with the log of the gas concentration.