Friday, May 17, 2013

Light Dancing on Glass


This image, taken with a powerful microscope, shows tiny, individual crystals of bismuth telluride. A new structure made from this material lets light travel easily and without interruption along its surface. 
Credit: A13ean/Wikipedia

3 comments:

Chris said Chris said...

Wow. I think that it is really cool that light can go across surfaces using these insulators. This has a LOT to do with heat energy. The insulators allow such amazing things to happen such as this light 'dancing'. I think it is a really cool innovation and could open up a business market very easily. Who knows what you could and couldn't do with these?

Nicholas said...

Like Chris said, I think it is really cool how light can go across a surface using the insulators. I also did not know that "Topology" was the study of surfaces. I think it is cool how light practically "danced" on the glass. Overall, I think this is a really cool idea and, as Chris said, could be a business idea soon.

Paisley said...

I think this is a really interesting article, because it is a cool innovation to be able to get crystals that work for an amazing purpose, and it was amazing how the light "danced." I believe that these crystals will help us with using light more efficiently.