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August 22, 2005

Titanium Dioxide Microsphere

A titanium dioxide microsphere 1-50 microns in diameter with (approximately) closed-packed spherical inclusions. These can be thought of as small photonic crystallites, which are expected to scatter light very efficiently.

Credit: Sascha Klein, Fred Lange and David Pine, University of California, Santa Barbara


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