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So if almost perfectly reflective… That implies that it could make a good insulator, or keep things cool if all the ‘heat’ is reflected away? At any rate it appears to be a really neat matter that should have a lot of applications.

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Dielectric mirror films or sheets are (claimed to be) used to make what looks like a TV when it is on and displaying a picture, or like a wall mirror when the TV is off. In fact there’s a company called Hidden Television that custom builds hidden televisions that use a (supposed) dielectric mirror, or they sell just the dielectric mirrors alone if you want to DIY your own Hidden Television.

matter … material …. To bad ya can’t edit :) . One other thing… If you pinch the top the tube off real fast, is the light photons/waves ‘trapped’ :) and just bouncing around in the tube looking for a way out?

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3M makes lots of fun films for LCD construction, including prismatic and one of my personal favorites, a film that’s fairly reflective except at one polarization, where it’s transparent. All of these small optimizations add up when you’re building LCD backlights, and lead to less heat and more battery life for a given brightness.

The material is made by layering alternative high and low refractive index transparent polymers with thickness tuned so that reflections constructively interfere.

A good application might be mirrors for focusing solar energy onto photoelectric cells allowing for more usage of the expensive cell. Main issue would be heat management at the reflector and on the cell itself. Possibly also useful to redirect sunlight for household lighting.

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Well,doing the math, it is 99.5 reflective so it is absorbing .5 percent of the photons on each bounce. At the speed of light in that small a volume, it would all absorb pretty quickly. So no, it is not an effective bag of light.

So I guess if youtubers do those long ads n their video that YT does actually get a cut from the advertiser? Just like they do with inserted separate ads. Except now its harder to block, which makes this kind of advertising actually pretty hostile.

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I was gonna say they should combine this with that the research material they made from studying fireflies. Might get the brightest of lights from the most minimal of power.

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Paradoxically, the mirror is made of several layers of transparent film. The video explains how a bunch of transparent layers can reflect light.

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I read all the stuff on the Hidden Television web site including the free downloadable specification .pdf file. Although the mirror is called “Dielectric”; I have doubts about that. It looks to me the mirror they use is made by coating a thin sheet of flat float-glass with some standard reflective material. According to the downloaded .pdf specification file, the mirror has 25% transmittance and 71% reflectance. I think a real dielectic mirror would have much better specifications, especially in the reflectance number. Yeah just remember, this is the Internet – Mmmkay ;-)

Heat radiation at room temperatures corresponds to a much longer infrared wavelengths than visible light. This mirror is specifically designed for optical range so it most likely will be terrible at “heat” reflection. If you want a film heat insulator, it was invented years ago, google Mylar aka Space Blanket. It relies on reflection from a metal surface, so I wonder if in the future dielectric approach will improve it

Material like this help spread light behind cell phone screens. Efficiency is important because everyone wants longer battery life with their phones. We aren’t sure what we want to do with this, but it must be something. Our guess is since the reflections take place in different layers of the polymer, it wouldn’t make a good telescope, but we could be wrong. The tape isn’t dirt cheap, but it doesn’t seem outrageously priced if you can find it.

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I.e. most likely it works pretty well for near IR and unless the polymers are particularly opaque to IR you probably have decent scope to optimize for wavelength.

Turns out something that thin and reflective can be hard to find. It also makes a little flashlight if you roll a tube of the material and pinch the back end together. The light that would have exited the rear of the tube now bounces around until it exits from the front, making it noticeably bright. The film comes from 3M, and apparently, they were surprised about the optical properties, too.

We knew the mirrors in our house were not really very good mirrors, optically speaking. Your mirror eats up 20 to 40 percent of the light that hits it. High-quality first-surface mirrors are better, but [Action Lab] has a video (see below) of something really different: a polymer dielectric mirror with 99.5% reflectivity. In addition, it has no Brewster angle — light that hits it from any angle will reflect.

More 9s at a specific wavelength, right?, and I bet transparent at others – there’s that tuning of the layers again. It’s cool stuff.

The dielectric mirrors we used in ring laser gyros in the ’80s had more 9s in the reflectivity. I didn’t have the clearance to find out how many beyond 99.99

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Photodiode in an enclosure with built-in filters for the Photoelectric Effect experiment.