Photon Sieve (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Photon Sieve

Caption

Photon sieves like this are cut from a single wafer of silicon or niobium to focus extreme ultraviolet light – a difficult wavelength to capture.

Credit

NASA / Christopher Gunn

Usage Restrictions

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License

Public Domain

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