Sieve closeup (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Sieve closeup

Caption

New photon sieves consist of a honeycomb structure supporting a super-thin membrane cut to focus extreme-ultraviolet light. In this sieve, the largest gaps and holes can be seen in the center hexagon, but the rest quickly become too small for the human eye to detect.

NASA / Christopher Gunn

Credit

NASA / Christopher Gunn

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