{"id":11503,"date":"2013-10-27T17:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11503"},"modified":"2013-10-27T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:33:19","slug":"persuading-light-to-mix-it-up-with-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11503","title":{"rendered":"Persuading light to mix it up with matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Their findings suggest that it\u2019s possible to alter the electronic properties of a material \u2014 for example, changing it from a conductor to a semiconductor \u2014 just by changing the laser beam\u2019s polarization. Normally, to produce such dramatic changes in a material\u2019s properties, \u201cyou have to do something violent to it,\u201d Gedik says. \u201cBut in this case, it may be possible to do this just by shining light on it. That actually modifies how electrons move in this system. And when we do this, the light does not even get absorbed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2013\/persuading-light-to-mix-it-up-with-matter-1024.html\">Persuading light to mix it up with matter &#8211; MIT News Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It will take some time to assess possible applications, Gedik says. But, he suggests, this could be a way of engineering materials for specific functions. \u201cSuppose you want a material to do something \u2014 to conduct electricity, or to be transparent, for example. We usually do this by chemical means. With this new method, it may be possible to do this by simply shining light on the materials.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their findings suggest that it\u2019s possible to alter the electronic properties of a material \u2014 for example, changing it from a conductor to a semiconductor \u2014 just by changing the laser beam\u2019s polarization. Normally, to produce such dramatic changes in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11503\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1026,631,387,647],"class_list":["post-11503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-lasers","tag-material-science","tag-mit","tag-semiconductors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}