{"id":12605,"date":"2012-10-16T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2012-10-16T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T08:00:50","slug":"interfering-with-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12605","title":{"rendered":"Interfering With Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seas.harvard.edu\/news-events\/press-releases\/applied-physics-as-art\">Applied physics as art<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For centuries it was thought that thin-film interference effects, such as those that cause oily pavements to reflect a rainbow of swirling colors, could not occur in opaque materials. Harvard physicists have now discovered that even very \u201clossy&#8221; thin films, if atomically thin, can be tailored to reflect a particular range of dramatic and vivid colors.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\n&#8220;\u2026 In this particular case there was almost a bias among engineers that if you\u2019re using interference, the waves have to bounce many times, so the material had better be transparent. What Mikhail\u2019s done\u2014and it\u2019s admittedly simple to calculate\u2014is to show that if you use a light-absorbing film like germanium, much thinner than the wavelength of light, then you can still see large interference effects.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied physics as art For centuries it was thought that thin-film interference effects, such as those that cause oily pavements to reflect a rainbow of swirling colors, could not occur in opaque materials. Harvard physicists have now discovered that even &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12605\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}