{"id":100270,"date":"2019-12-29T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T02:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/new-rules-illuminate-how-objects-absorb-and-emit-light"},"modified":"2019-12-29T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T02:24:51","slug":"new-rules-illuminate-how-objects-absorb-and-emit-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/new-rules-illuminate-how-objects-absorb-and-emit-light","title":{"rendered":"New rules illuminate how objects absorb and emit light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-rules-illuminate-how-objects-absorb-and-emit-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Princeton researchers have uncovered new rules governing how objects absorb and emit light, fine-tuning scientists\u2019 control over light and boosting research into next-generation solar and optical devices.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery solves a longstanding problem of scale, where light\u2019s behavior when interacting with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tiny+objects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tiny objects<\/a> violates well-established physical constraints observed at larger scales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kinds of effects you get for very small objects are different from the effects you get from very large objects,\u201d said Sean Molesky, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical engineering and the study\u2019s first author. The difference can be observed in moving from a molecule to a grain of sand. \u201cYou can\u2019t simultaneously describe both things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton researchers have uncovered new rules governing how objects absorb and emit light, fine-tuning scientists\u2019 control over light and boosting research into next-generation solar and optical devices. The discovery solves a longstanding problem of scale, where light\u2019s behavior when interacting with tiny objects violates well-established physical constraints observed at larger scales. \u201cThe kinds of effects [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}