Sentences with phrase «reflected by these atoms»

Not exact matches

By carefully analyzing the reflected beam, the researchers detected stripes of holes lying along every eighth row of copper atoms, as they describe in the 4 March issue of Physical Review Letters.

The technique, developed by researchers at Sheffield University, uses the phenomenon of laser «speckle»: no surface is uniformly smooth at the atomic scale and, when laser light reflects off it, the roughness caused by the individual atoms creates interference in the wavefronts so that the reflected light seems to scintillate, with tiny bright and dark patches.

The scattered light waves superimpose and were reflected back onto the atoms by two parallel mirrors.