Film Definition and 346 Threads

Homework Statement A sheet of glass having an index of refraction of 1.20 is to be coated with a film of material having an index of refraction of 1.42 such that green light with a wavelength of 525 nm (in air) is preferentially transmitted via constructive interference. What is the minimum...

Homework Statement Two rectangular plates (n = 1.60) are in contact along one edge and separated along the opposite edge (see figure). Light with a wavelength of 600 nm is incident perpendicularly onto the top plate. The air between the plates acts as a thin film. Nine dark fringes and eight...

new to this project and have limited knowledge, but the failure is consistent thru all specimens so I am hoping someone could shed some light. Film cap design is rated to 1650v Failure- Cap initially failed around 800v consistently, the curing time was adjusted and a ramping cycle was...

Homework Statement A film of MgF2 (n = 1.38) having thickness 1.44 x 10-5 cm is used to coat a camera lens. What are the three longest wavelengths that are intensified in the reflected light? (Enter your answers from smallest to largest.) Homework Equations λn = λ/n n = index of...

Any physics invention for making a super catchy and funny charlie chaplin film?

What would happen if I bought highly sensitive photographic film such as ASA 800 and shined a laser pointer on it? When I get it developed will the photons that the laser emitted show up on the film?

Homework Statement A thin layer of water (n=1.33) is surrounded by air what wavelength of light will not be transmitted through the water at the point where the water is 113 nm thick? The Attempt at a Solution - In phase - Path difference of 2T. - Constructive Interference I just...

I found a lot the the surface plasmon on prism geometry are using gold for metal film, and part of it are using silver. Why we need use gold or sivler as a metal film, is it about the condutivity?

Hello, I am having some difficulties understanding this concept. It seems like wikipedia and my notes/teacher contradict each other According to my equation sheet, the equation for dark spots is 2nt = mλ and for bright spots is 2nt = (m + 0.5)λ. However, if a phase shift of 180 degrees occurs...

Hallo alle users, as the title indicates, I have a question about measurement of thin film thickness by means of spectral reflectance. Given, the to be measured thin film has thickness less than 600 nm, but the measuring light has only wavelengh larger than 600 nm. Does it mean, that the...

Homework Statement I was asked to determin the film thickness for an oil film (n=1.33) for a light beam (500 nm) to give total reflection. I could calculate refraction angle for air to oil, but have no idea as to how to approach this question. Homework Equations The Attempt at a...

Hi guys, long time reader new poster. I am looking for ways to determine the thickness of some thin films of zinc oxide I have been producing. Conventionally I use SEM cross section, but the throughput of films has made this a little taxing. I've tried also weighing the substrates before...

a thin soap film is seen in sodium light by normal reflection method it appears totally dark deduce the possible values of film thickness given (myu)-refra.indx of liquid-1.333 and lambda wave.lgth-5893 angstrom

Homework Statement A very thin sheet of plastic (n=1.70) covers one slit of a double-slit apparatus illuminated by 630 nm light. The center point on the screen, instead of being a maximum, is dark. What is the (minimum) thickness of the plastic? Homework Equations Constructive...

Homework Statement A thin film of alcohol (n=1.36) lies on a flat glass plate (n=1.51). When monochromatic light whose wavelength can be changed, is incident normally, the reflected light is minimum for λ=512 nm and a maximum for λ=640 nm. What is the thickness of the film? Homework...

I put together this little movie as (hopefully) the first in a series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMjWtntm9k" My target audience is a second semester class of physics students that have already had a lectures in basic wave optics. When I give this URL to my students, it's with the...

Apparently Mel Gibson is making a movie about the Maccabean revolt around 150 BC. Mel is a Roman Catholic and two books of their Bible are Maccabees 1 and 2. There is a 3 and 4 in the Greek Catholic Bible. None of the books are found in the Jewish and Protestant Bibles, but used to be. The...

Hi, I have deposited a film of dielectric on SiO2 substrate. Then, deposited metal dots on the top of dielectric film to measure electrical properties. I want to measure capacitance using metal dots on the top of dielectric. Since I have SiO2 as a substrate, I can not make a parallel plate...

Hi, I have deposited a film of dielectric on SiO2 substrate. Then, deposited metal dots on the top of dielectric film to measure electrical properties. I want to measure capacitance using metal dots on the top of dielectric. Since I have SiO2 as a substrate, I can not make a parallel...

How much does one earn to be a film producer/playwriter in the US ? Many people seem to run into this industry. I bet if it is less than 10G/film item, they won't work ? Thank you

Look at the picture below, I have to prove that the optical path length difference is \Delta=n(BC+CD)-BE=2nd\cos(r) [PLAIN]http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2271/schermata082455775alle1.th.png The problem is just how to get 2nd\cos(r) I actually don't have any idea :\ I have...

Hello, I am trying to understand thin film (in air) interference but I have a problem: I know we have destructive interference when \delta=(2m+1)\pi. Now i can try to calculate the thickness of the film to get it, so since \delta =\frac{4nt\pi}{\lambda} - \pi where t is the thickness...

having watched the film source code where they try and persuade that quantum physics allows for the brain to contain infinite parallel worlds i wondered if anyone made sense of it. As far as i could tell it was total rubbish from start to Finnish. Even down to the guy managing to send a text...

Autochrome is a photography technique which all details forgotten 50 years ago but counted as the best color photograph technique. There are two layers on glass , one RGB Screen and second , a bw emulsion. When RGB filter separates the image , bw all color sensitive layer records the tones...

Ok. I know this may sound like a stupid question but for the life of me i can't find definitions for these terms. I am working on developing a PVDF polymer based piezoelectric film and need to know what the terms Uniaxial and biaxial mean. I am using an electrospining method to make the fibers...

In my opinion, the most powerful score from any movie in history would have to be from the "saw" film franchise. Gives you goosebumps if you play it with the sound blasting. Composed by Charlie Clouser.

I have been repairing some devices but some of them have the pad connection ripped off so I can not repair the USB tips. I have found out how to repair the ripped connection which is the following procedure; Either a conductive liquid or film epoxy is put on the ripped connection area, then the...

Homework Statement A construction company designs a new office tower with an outer surface mostly made of glass(n glass = 1.52). The company wishes that the glass appear a reddish-orange without having to use coloured glass. Instead, a thin film (n film = 1.65) is used that maximizes the...

Homework Statement A piece of paper of thickness 15 * 10^-6 m is used to create an air wedge between 2 glass slides that are 7.25 cm long. If the wavelength of the light being used is 595 nm, how many interference fringes are counted across the entire pattern? Homework Equations delta...

1. Calculate the minimum thickness of the film for which the intensity of the reflected red ray is near zero. (This is AP Physics B 2010 (c)ii.) I found the wavelength in the film to be 4.81x10-7 m nf=1.382. 2L=mλ (destructive interference) The Attempt at a Solution My first attempt yielded a...

Homework Statement A pair of very flat glass plates, 7.41 cm long, touch at one end and are separated at the other end by a small piece of 44 gauge copper wire, 5.08×10−5 m in diameter. An air wedge is formed between the glass plates by this supporting wire. Light of wavelength 631 nm...

I am looking over thin film interference and am having some difficulty understanding when to know if a reflected ray will be 180 degrees out of phase or in phase. I know that a ray reflecting off a medium with a higher index of refraction will have a 180 degree phase change; and that a ray...

Homework Statement See figure attached. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Not too sure how to do this one. I tried thinking about what it was doing before the air was replaced with the liquid. With air, The first reflection would have no phase shift (glass...

Homework Statement White light is sent downward onto a horizontal thin film that is sandwiched between two materials. The indexes of refraction are 1.80 for the top material, 1.66 for the thin film, and 1.50 for the bottom material. The film thickness is 5.4 10-7 m. Homework...

Hi all, Can the claim made that this is a ghost be debunked from watching the video alone? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20110329/tod-family-captures-poltergeist-on-film-045b8e8.html"

Homework Statement See figure attached for problem statement as well as my attempt. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I don't know where to go from here. Can someone help me get started?

HELP with thin film problem! Homework Statement Consider a horizontal plane of thin film with a thickness t. This film is located in between air and water (see sketch). Light is directed from the air downward through the film and into the water, perpendicular to the surfaces.The index...

Homework Statement The light reflected from a soap bubble (n=1.4) appears bright red (wave length= 640 nm) at its center. What is the minimum thickness (in nm) there? Dray Phase Diagram. Homework Equations lambda(n)=lambda/n n=index of refraction 2*n*t=m*lambda OR 2*n*t...

Homework Statement So I have a similar situation with the traditional Newton rings. Instead of having however a convex lens, I have a (partial) spherical surface with height d with sitting on top of a thin film of thickness t, with d >>> t, and refractive index n and below the thin film is a...

Homework Statement A client has asked you to produce a sheet of material that will appear yellow for transmitted light and purple for reflected light. You decide that "yellow light" is 600 nm and that "purple light" is 400 nm. If you use MgF2 (n2= 1.39), how think should the sheet be...

Hello everyone. I need to simulate flux densities generated by thin films of permanent magnets of varying composition. This is to guide selection of parameters for sputtering of Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets. Does anyone know of a program which will allow me to simulate fields from permanent...

I am taking the spectra of lithium, carbon and mercury on a piece of film with the help of a spectrograph. One of the parameters that affect the readings is the exposure times. (How?) I have to find the correct exposure times experimentally. (Why?) That is because the exposure times depend on...

Homework Statement Light of wavelength 526 nm is incident normally on a film of water 1.0 µm thick. The index of refraction of water is 1.33. (c) What is the phase difference between the wave reflected from the top of the air-water interface and the one reflected from the bottom of the...

Hello there, Right now I'm in a physics lab in which I have a vacuum jar, a thin film evaporation apparatus, and the instructions to do something interesting. I'm looking at a bunch of ideas right now, but one project that appeals to me is a multi-layer anti-reflective coating. The way I'd...

Kind of late, but has everyone seen this film? Anyone figured it out? What are your theories on what's going on?

Homework Statement I need to calculate n, k and d of an "unknown" thin film. I have the transmission spectra of the substrate (MgF2) and substrate + "unknown" thin film See the attachments with: three files - two screenshots of the transmission spectra (see file name for description) -...

Homework Statement [PLAIN]http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2696/33095583.jpg The attempt at a solution I simply took 425 nm and divided it by 4 by using the destructive reflection from thin film. I got 106 nm as my answer, which is c. Is this correct?

Homework Statement Estimate the transmission of light with \lambda=1\mu m that is transmitted through 20nm thick gold film at 77k where The DC conductivity: \sigma_{DC}=2*10^8 \Omega^{-1} m^{-1}) The carrier density: n=5.9*10^28 m^{-3}) and the plasmon frequency...

Homework Statement (1 / 2) (λ1 /nfilm) (m1) = (1 /4) (λ2 / nfilm) (2m2 +1) (2*m2 + 1) / (2*m1) =λ1 / λ2 = 640 nm / 512 nm = 1.25 We want to solve for m1 and m2. I have realized that using m1=m2=2 works but I can't figure out how to reach this conclusion mathematically. Please, any...

Hello there, I'm an undergrad in my 3rd year and I'm doing an investigation into the 'Preparation of Thin Films and their use in Hall Effect measurements.' We are making thin films of bismuth on glass (with pre drilled terminals) in a vacuum system. The way they suggest measuring the...