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The Science of Magnetism

5 Live Science Podcast

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Using a Plasmonica Effect in the Sun

Gold has a good property that when it's a small particle and you hit it with visible light, these electron cloud that's around the particle can oscillate at resonance. And so we tuned that packing and that structure in a way where it was transparent and invisible, but then more absorbing in the infrared. So we had this kind of nice balance of properties there.

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