FOR KIDS: Perfect reflections

FOR KIDS: Perfect reflections

Physicists design a new mirror to reflect light

By Stephen Ornes

Web edition: July 18, 2013

Physicists design a new mirror to reflect light

By Stephen Ornes

Web edition: July 18, 2013

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Some mirror!

A light-reflecting (photonic) crystal like the one illustrated here can sometimes serve as a perfect mirror.

Credit: Bo Zhen

Physicists have built a mirror that Snow White?s wicked stepmother would certainly not appreciate. It offers a perfect reflection.
But this perfect reflector is nothing like the wall mirror we?re used to. Instead, it looks more like a tiny ceramic slab punched through with a grid of tiny holes. A device relying on this technology could be used to more efficiently transmit light beams that carry information.

Visit the new Science News for Kids website and read the full story: Perfect reflections.

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Citations

A. Grant. ?Perfect mirror debuts.? Science News. July 10, 2013.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351700/title/FOR_KIDS_Perfect_reflections

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