Light can pass straight through transparent close transparentA material, object or substance which allows light to pass through it so that an image can be clearly seen through it. materials.

Light travels in straight lines. If an object is transparent, it means you can see through the object clearly as light passes through it. There are objects that let some light through, but not enough ...

Illustration of a thin, dense vapor of quantum emitters (blue disk) interacting with an incident electromagnetic field. Physicists have shown that strong dipole-dipole interactions in the quantum ...

Glare-free windows could be made from a material studded with billions of tiny metal patches. This makes a one-way window that is matte – it looks opaque, reflecting barely 1 per cent of light from ...

Techniques for optical acquisition of physical objects and their surroundings lie at the heart of virtual reality (VR) systems and material design applications, but the digitization process becomes ...

While this system works well enough on relatively dull opaque objects, it has problems with transparent items that much of the light passes through, or shiny objects that scatter the reflected light.