Researchers confine light to crystal surface, design transparent display using nanoparticles
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 06:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Light is a slippery fellow. Stand in a darkened hallway and close a door to a lighted room: Light will sneak through any cracks—it doesn't want to be confined. "Typically, in free space, light will go everywhere," graduate student Chia Wei (Wade) Hsu says. "If you want to confine light, you usually need some special mechanism."