Re: [Phys-l] Transparency

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

At 10:46 AM 10/10/2008, Stefan J.,  you wrote:

> ...
> I am curious: how would one typically inject charge into diamond?
> Could you just deposit a metal electrode on it and have it work
> efficiently?
> ...
> Stefan Jeglinski

Which reminds me....

"Physicists from the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Madrid
Institute of Advanced Studies in Nano­science have created the
smoothest surface ever made,  called a "quantum stabilized atom
mirror," according to the September edition of the research journal
 Advanced Materials.
    A   design for the world's first atomic microscope is in hand, 
they say.
    The mirror resembles a curved wafer. It is made up of a thin
silicon crystal with a thickness of fifty microns, and covered with
a layer of lead a nanometer or two thick. They  used A helium atom beam.
without a coating, silicon surfaces have reflected one percent
 of helium atoms, but by adding the layer of lead a reflection of up to
 67 per­cent was achieved.
      The lead is deposited on the silicon at a temperature  between
-173º and -133º C . Then, in an 'astonishing and spontaneous' way,
 bumps on the surface even out and a super-flat layer emerges."

[abridged from World Science, on-line.]


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!