Scientist to make the surfaces invisible across a wider range wavelength introduces a new technology inspired by Moth eyes. Although most of the lenses, objectives and lasers have an anti-reflective coating still they are not recommendable for wider wavelength range. An alternative technology has been introduced by Scientists at Max Planck Institute for intelligent systems in Germany.
Comparing the alternative method with the one where the surface was coated, it delivers the desired results where an anti-reflective effect can be seen for a wider range of wavelength. The plus point of manipulating the surface is it largely increases the light transmittance through the surface.
This idea came from the Moth where the corneal of the insects did not reflect any incoming light. The design of optical components is inspired by this moth story. The light, which passes through the boundary layer, changes its refractive index (which hardly reflects the incoming light), continuously, starting from air to the target.
There are two steps involved in this process:
They distributed gold particles on a large surface. In the first pattern, the gold particles settle themselves in points of crossroads. In the next step, the gold particles acts as a mask in the chemical etching process.
However, this technique has definitely shown results in past but only for the short waved UV radiation and visible light. After the limit, the columns etched out of the surface almost 500 nanometers high and not high enough to reach 99.5 percent for the wavelength. But, the group found the procedure to increase the size of the deposited gold particles with columns etching out as high as 2,000 nanometres.
