| Optical properties and Superconductive Materials
Chapter Objectives
- Explain what phenomena can occur with light radiation as it passes from one medium into
another.
- Discuss why metallic materials are opaque to visible light.
- Explain what determines the color of metallic materials.
- Briefly describe the phenomenon of superconductivity.
- Explain why amorphous materials are usually transparent.
- Briefly describe the construction of a ruby laser.
- Describe the mechanism of photon absorption for a semiconductor that contains electrically active defects.
- Explain what laser means.
- Briefly describe the advantages of hightemperature oxide superconductors.
- Cite distinctions between opacity, translucency, and transparency.
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