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News Release 15-006
Spotlight on light
International Year of Light celebrates impacts on scientific research
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NSF will begin celebrating the International Year of Light with its "Image of the Week." This is the inaugural image in that campaign. This image spotlights work by NSF-funded researchers from the University at Buffalo, who have discovered a way to slow down or trap light within a microchip using alternating layers of ultra-thin metal, semiconductors and insulators.
Credit: Qiaoqiang Gan, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
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