opals

A door is opened to give an insight into a world of light effects and nanostructures. To join this travel one does not even need text book physics or formulas. Different microscopes and methods show a variety of new images of the same object: an opal.
Although the material of an opal itself is transparent, one sees beautiful light effects when the opal is illuminated. These colours are due to light diffraction with the symmetrical nanoscopic structure of the opal material.
The aim of the film is to gain public interest for the physics at micro and nano scales. It shows the beauty of nature as well as the fantastic possibilities of new imaging techniques.

Music: Cornel Hecht (www.urania-music.de)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nano
• effects
• light
• nanostructures
• microscopy
• AFM
• Opale
• Licht
• Farbe
• Struktur
• Rasterkraftmikroskopie