The new material has almost the same refractive index as air I would assume this means that it is incredibly transparent. Hence, it would make for good LEDs, since nearly ALL of the LED light would escape. It would improve solar cells, since a coating of this material (instead of glass) would allow far more light to reach the cell.
35 posted on 03/01/2007 9:00:36 PM EST by beezdotcomYour posts remind me of the old "Grin and Bear It" cartoon. A squad of soldiers is lined up in a column, all facing one way. Except that the last soldier in the squad is facing the opposite direction, and the Sergent is screaming at him, "Of all the men in this squad who did it wrong, you had to foul everything up and get it right!"I was like everyone else - I just glanced at the article and looked at the comments without really trying to make sense of the article. Then I saw your quote about the index of refraction being the same as air, and immediately checked your quote. There it was, "buried" in the first line of the article text!! Who'd have thought of looking there!
So while everyone else was babbling about absorption of light (and of radar waves), this thing is - as the article clearly states - an ideal transparent optical coating which enables a lens to transmit I don't ever recall a case where by rights the moderator should pull the first 26 replies as being nongermane!