Sentences with phrase «than the wavelength of light»

This dramatic difference arises because the silver spheres are much smaller than the wavelength of light.

The fact that the film is much thinner than the wavelength of light makes it difficult to see without the aid of modern instruments.

An ordinary microscope or telescope can't see detail on a scale less than the wavelength of light.

That's 100 million times smaller than an atom, and a trillion times smaller than the wavelength of the light being used in the measurement.

«What's remarkable is that at this high frequency, the wavelength of the sound is even shorter than the wavelength of light.

«The light from each segment will interfere with adjacent segments, and if the segments are not aligned to better than a wavelength of light, that interference shows up like barber pole patterns,» explained Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for the Webb telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

They do not take up much space: Layers with a thickness in the order of magnitude of nanometers are enough to detect light — the detector is more than a thousand times thinner than the wavelength of the light which is being detected.

The particles in these materials that are responsible for scattering the light are larger than the wavelength of light.

Built from «metamaterials» with bizarre, controversial optical properties, a superlens could produce images that include details finer than the wavelength of light that is used

These plasmons feature sizes much smaller than the wavelength of light used to excite them.

Based on my physics training, I expected it to have been much darker, because the diameter of those holes was much smaller than the wavelength of the light trying to pass through it.

More than a century later, we have machines that can visualize living structures smaller than the wavelength of light.

«Such a surface is orders of magnitude thinner than the wavelength of light that it aims to reflect, and so its reflectivity would be low,» Loeb says.

Optic phonons, or crystal vibrations that can be excited with infrared light, can also be used to confine light to dimensions much smaller than the wavelength of light, while maintaining record - high efficiencies.

Using the natural hyperbolic behavior of hBN, the researchers were able to demonstrate that light could also be confined within optical antennas — up to 86 times smaller than the wavelength of light, for instance confinement of 6.8 micrometers of light into a 0.08 micrometer tall antenna — while maintaining record - high efficiencies due to the low - loss nature of the dielectric crystal.

Plasmonic lasers are the smallest lasers created to date — they can even be smaller than the wavelength of the light they emit.

A metamaterial is a material whose electric and magnetic properties are determined as much by its structure as by its chemical composition, although the structure must be on a scale much smaller than the wavelength of light you're using.

The lens can resolve nanoscale features separated by distances smaller than the wavelength of light.

«Meta - lens works in the visible spectrum, sees smaller than a wavelength of light: High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes.»

The team designed the array to resolve a structure smaller than a wavelength of light, around 400 nanometers across.

By the way, this effect is most prevalent when the particles that do the scattering are smaller than the wavelength of light, as is the case for the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere.

This lattice looks like an arrangement of tiny holes, each one smaller than the wavelength of light being emitted by the LED.

Iridescent butterfly wings get their brilliance from structures smaller than a wavelength of light.

Doing the same thing for smaller visible wavelengths is harder, because the metamaterial elements must be made smaller than the wavelength of the light.

A negative - index flat lens like this has also been predicted to enable the transfer of image details substantially smaller than the wavelength of light and create higher - resolution images than are possible with lenses made of positive - index materials such as glass.

His idea was to create an optical source smaller than a wavelength of light, and place it close to the target.

These metamaterials incorporate components much smaller than the wavelength of light, which allows them to control the light waves and gives them optical properties beyond those...

Capturing clear images of objects as tiny as a single virus or a nanoparticle is difficult because the optical signal strength and contrast are very low for objects that are smaller than the wavelength of light.

Semiconductor lasers have shrunk to dimensions even smaller than the wavelength of the light they emit.

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.

«This work demonstrates that light can be trapped in structures much thinner than the wavelength of light and that minute changes in this structure are observable,» said Dr. Genack.

Individual molecules and atoms are much smaller than the wavelengths of light that we can see.

This produces sub-wavelength bright spots that let us see objects that are smaller than the wavelength of the light.

In order for light rays to be concentrated at the focal point of a reflecting telescope, the size of the irregularities in the curve of the parabolic collector must be smaller than the wavelength of the light being collected.

The Science Optical lenses that can see features smaller than the wavelength of light can not be made from conventional materials.

Our particles are very small — even smaller than a wavelength of light — which means they have an extremely small surface area to dissipate heat.