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Painting With Light: Novel nanopillars precisely control color and intensity of transmitted light – Mirage News
Credit: T. Xu/Nanjing University Illustration depicts a faithful reproduction of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl…

Credit:T. Xu/Nanjing University
Illustration depicts a faithful reproduction of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” using millions of nanopillars that control both the color and intensity of incident light.
By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have reproduced with astonishing fidelity the luminous hues and subtle shadings of “Gi…
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