Photonics

As higher-energy wavelengths like blue and violet scatter in the atmosphere, only deeper red tones remain. The result is a glowing crimson moon rising over the city, after a long day in the lab.

When studying our particle on a mirror system in the Raman set-up, we came across this beautiful volcano resulting from the agglomeration of some nanoparticles.

Fourier microscopy in reflectance. Objective 100x, NA 0.9.

Thin films of a polymer before (transparent) and after (opaque) annealing.