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Using a Plasmonic Effect on a Metal Particle

The only use on glasses of course has got to be transparent. The one that we ultimately settled on was using what's called a plasmonic effect. So metals aren't useful because they're electrically conductive. And you impinge that on such a particle, you can cause these electrons to jostle, oscillate and move. There's different metals that are good for this and one really nice one is gold.

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