{"id":169203,"date":"2023-08-07T18:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/research-team-achieves-near-perfect-light-absorption-in-atomic-scale-material"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:22:23","slug":"research-team-achieves-near-perfect-light-absorption-in-atomic-scale-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/research-team-achieves-near-perfect-light-absorption-in-atomic-scale-material","title":{"rendered":"Research team achieves near-perfect light absorption in atomic-scale material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-achieves-near-perfect-light-absorption-in-atomic-scale-material3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Minnesota-led team has, for the first time, engineered an atomically thin material that can absorb nearly 100% of light at room temperature, a discovery that could improve a wide range of applications from optical communications to stealth technology. Their paper has been published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Materials that absorb nearly all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/incident+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">incident light <\/a>\u2014meaning not a lot of light passes through or reflects off of them\u2014are valuable for applications that involve detecting or controlling light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOptical communications are used in basically everything we do,\u201d said Steven Koester, a professor in the College of Science and Engineering and a senior author of the paper. \u201cThe internet, for example, has optical detectors connecting fiber optic links. This research has the potential to allow these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+communications\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical communications<\/a> to be done at higher speeds and with greater efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Minnesota-led team has, for the first time, engineered an atomically thin material that can absorb nearly 100% of light at room temperature, a discovery that could improve a wide range of applications from optical communications to stealth technology. Their paper has been published in Nature Communications. Materials that absorb nearly all of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169203","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}