Leicester Physics Centre
Public Lectures 2015: The International Year of Light
Mike McNally Colour and the Structure of Matter Top: Fluorescent minerals glow under black light; Bottom: Silica nanoparticles glow blue under UV laser light in our lab. Green light is secondary emission from the laser. Why is fire yellow? Why is your gas
hob blue? Why are metals shiny? What
makes traffic lights red, green and
blue?
Mike McNally will examine these
and other phenomena to illuminate the
techniques used to investigate new
materials produced in the Condensed
Matter Physics laboratories at the
University of Leicester.
Left: The Lycurgus Cup's rosy glows stems from embedded gold nanoparticles in the glass; Right: Silver nanoparticles produced in our lab show a similar rosy glow The lecture will occur on Thursday 17th September at 18:30 in Ground Floor Lecture Theatre 3 of
the Ken Edwards Building
For further details or to make a booking please complete the form at the web site below or telephone 0116 252 3568 during office hours http://www.le.ac.uk/lpc Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester