In 1912, Max von Laue predicted that the spacing of crystal layers is small enough to diffract light of the appropriate wavelength.
You wouldn't see the rainbow effect if you used two reflecting surfaces an inch apart because that distance too large to diffract visible light.
Alternating dark and light parallel lines on the detector mark where columns of silicon atoms diffract the electrons.
The high supersaturation controls yielded mostly clusters or very small single crystals which did not diffract at all.
These crystals have high mosaicity, diffract to low resolution, and were tentatively assigned to the P23 space group.
He discovered how to refract lightwaves to create such beacons, not how to diffract them.
As X-rays diffract off the atoms of crystals, a computer mapped each atom's position.
Light rays, passing the atmosphere do not just curve, but also diffract by the air molecules and the small water drops and flecks of dust in it.
In the presence of a defect, its extremities diffract sound waves emitted by the first translator.
And to take lipstick radiance to new levels, the ruby powder is enriched with glass micro-beads that diffract light to infinity.
For example, audible sound waves have wavelengths of about one metre, which easily diffract around commonplace objects.
Probably they go into paroxysms of delight when a few drops of rain diffract the lights to further annoy the law-abiding citizens.
Recently there has been a flurry of activity to diffract, refract and reflect light to disguise skin imperfections.
In 1912 the German physicist Max von Laue announced that crystals could diffract X rays, thus implying that X rays must be waves like light but of much shorter wavelength.
Sound, which would otherwise diffract to the rear of the speaker, is immediately reflected forwards, causing interference with the direct output from the drivers.
However, it does not diffract light like a glass lens but scatters it like an optical grid generating a pattern of bright and dark patches.
There, computerized, transparent devices called holographic gratings diffract light in ways that ordinary optical components like prisms can't, steering it to the user's eyes.
This way, in order to diffract a story across all types of media, the bases don't change: an edit of images and sounds depicting an imaginary world where a real audience will want to spend some time.
The space between the breakwaters acts as slits which cause the incoming water waves to diffract.
In that case the light beam does not have a chance to spread, or diffract, and the resolution is limited by the width of the light source instead of the wavelength of the light.
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Earlier, a prism was used to diffract the light, but now a diffraction grating is used.
When plane waves diffract through fractal-patterned apertures, the resulting far-field profiles or diffractals also exhibit iterated, self-similar features.
Van Veen said, showing a visitor a selection of the components, of different sizes, each grooved imperceptibly with precise lines that diffract light.

Its cuticle is so ruled with fine lines as to diffract the light and flash on moving much as a fire opal.
These nanorods with configurable internal periodicity represent the smallest possible photonic structures that can effectively diffract visible light.

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