Brewster's angle (also known as the polarization angle) is an angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted...

A Brewster angle microscope (BAM) is a microscope for studying thin films on liquid surfaces, most typically Langmuir films. In a Brewster angle microscope...

emerging two-dimensional layered materials on a large scale. Brewster angle microscope – microscope for studying thin films on liquid surfacesPages displaying...

genome sequencing (includes BAM files and the BAM file format) Brewster angle microscope, for studying thin films on liquid surfaces. BAM, station code...

study of the polarization of light and including the discovery of Brewster's angle. He studied the birefringence of crystals under compression and discovered...

kaleidoscope by means of the solar microscope (a type of camera obscura device), magic lantern or camera lucida. Brewster believed it would at the same time...

characterize the particle layer during deposition for example a Brewster Angle Microscope. As a disadvantage, a successful Langmuir-Blodgett deposition...

assertion, David Brewster did not invent the stereoscope, as he himself was often at pains to make clear. A rival of Wheatstone, Brewster credited the invention...

but switches to 0° at Brewster's angle. Combining the complementarity with Snell's law yields θi = arctan (1/n) as Brewster's angle for dense-to-rare incidence...

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after seeing a compound microscope built by Drebbel exhibited in Rome in 1624, built his own improved version. The name microscope was coined by Giovanni...

collimated light source, in which the Brewster window is replaced by a cone at Brewster's angle. Called a "Rotated Brewster Angle Polarizer," the latter was first...

equation Bremermann's limit Bremsstrahlung Brendan Scaife Brewster's angle Brewster angle microscope Brian Cox (physicist) Brian David Josephson Brian Greene...

interface, as well as the critical angle for total internal reflection, their intensity (Fresnel equations) and Brewster's angle. The refractive index, n {\displaystyle...

ratio depending on the angle of incidence and the angle of refraction. In this way, physical optics recovers Brewster's angle. When light reflects from...

sections or grain mounts for study in the laboratory with a petrographic microscope. Optical mineralogy is used to identify the mineralogical composition...

pile of plates at a steeper angle to the incident beam. Counterintuitively, using incident angles greater than Brewster's angle yields a higher degree of...

strong birefringence of 0.105 to 0.135 (biaxial positive); under the microscope this leads to a distinctive high relief which combined with the common...

sets a fundamental limit to the resolution of a camera, telescope, or microscope. Other examples of diffraction are considered below. A long slit of infinitesimal...

generally changed. Any light striking a surface at a special angle of incidence known as Brewster's angle, where the reflection coefficient for p-polarization...

and r p {\displaystyle r_{p}} respectively. The angle of incidence is chosen close to the Brewster angle of the sample to ensure a maximal difference in...

fibres of leaves and the wings of insects". He also found that solar microscope images of small objects were easily captured on prepared paper. Davy,...

binoculars. W. Wray founded his optical company in 1850 initially making microscope lenses. By at least the 1880s it was making lenses for cameras. The company...

experimentation with lenses led to the invention of the compound optical microscope around 1595, and the refracting telescope in 1608, both of which appeared...

bespoke low temperature scanning tunneling microscopes. John F Allen Sir Michael Berry Sir David Brewster Robert Balson Dingle Andrew Collier Cameron...

flat images, people experienced the illusion of depth. In 1844, David Brewster discovered the "wallpaper effect". He noticed that when he stared at repeated...

the left eye. In the figure Angle αXY. Direction βXY is the direction of X relative to Y in the right eye. In the figure Angle βXY. The binocular disparity...

atom ~50 pm – best resolution of a high-resolution transmission electron microscope 60 pm – radius of a carbon atom 93 pm – length of a diatomic carbon molecule...

a tetragonal phase, observed in X-ray powder tests and later under a microscope. When tested two meteorites gave d-values that could "be indexed on the...

ice climbing anchor Ernst Karl Abbe (1840–1905), Germany – Condenser (microscope), apochromatic lens, refractometer Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), USSR/Russia/Armenia...