{"id":3846,"date":"2009-10-14T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2009-10-14T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T08:00:08","slug":"waiter-theres-a-photonic-crystal-around-my-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3846","title":{"rendered":"Waiter, There&#039;s a Photonic Crystal Around My Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v24\/st14\">Photonic Thermos<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hot soup in a thermos is surrounded by a vacuum between the inner and outer walls, which prevents heat from conducting directly through the sides, as it would if the walls were a one-piece solid. But the soup still loses heat by &#8220;glowing&#8221; in infrared light because the light radiated through the walls takes energy away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Shanhui Fan of Stanford University in California and his colleagues wondered if photonic crystals&#8211;periodic structures famous for blocking narrow frequency ranges of light&#8211;could block the broad range of infrared frequencies radiated by a warm body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photonic Thermos Hot soup in a thermos is surrounded by a vacuum between the inner and outer walls, which prevents heat from conducting directly through the sides, as it would if the walls were a one-piece solid. But the soup &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3846\">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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","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=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}