Traffic looks like fireworks when viewed through diffraction glasses. You can
pick up diffraction glasses for pretty cheap online - they’re popular as a
trippy party effect. But you can also think of them as giving you the superpower
of spectrometer vision, the ability to tell apart different kinds
Traffic looks like fireworks when viewed through diffraction glasses. You can
pick up diffraction glasses for pretty cheap online - they’re popular as a
trippy party effect. But you can also think of them as giving you the
superpower of spectrometer vision, the ability to tell apart different kinds
The microscopic fractured edge of a piece of semiconductor looms like an
enormous cliff face. However, this entire view would fit easily inside the
diameter of a single human hair. At the top of the cliff is a rough dark layer,
the remains of a protective layer that we bombarded
The microscopic fractured edge of a piece of semiconductor looms like an
enormous cliff face. However, this entire view would fit easily inside the
diameter of a single human hair. At the top of the cliff is a rough dark layer,
the remains of a protective layer that we bombarded
This is what an ordinary coffee shop looks like through diffraction glasses,
which act like prisms to separate white light into a rainbow of colors. In this
shot, you can see that not all white sources are alike - a few of them produce a
continuous rainbow of colors, while
This is what an ordinary coffee shop looks like through diffraction glasses,
which act like prisms to separate white light into a rainbow of colors. In this
shot, you can see that not all white sources are alike - a few of them produce a
continuous rainbow of colors, while
A rare view of the entire cross-section of one of my samples, which seems to
loom like a massive iceberg over choppy seas. This sample is a thin layer of
semiconductor (a material we use for making lasers, among other things), bonded
to a much thicker chunk of glass. The
A rare view of the entire cross-section of one of my samples, which seems to
loom like a massive iceberg over choppy seas. This sample is a thin layer of
semiconductor (a material we use for making lasers, among other things), bonded
to a much thicker chunk of glass. The
Fracture patterns at the edge of a broken wafer (broken on purpose, for once).
The lighter top layer is silicon, and the darker bottom layer is glass. The
glass looks darker than the silicon because it’s a better electrical insulator -
the electron beam microscope makes an image by