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This is known as thin-film interference, because it is the interference of light waves reflecting off the top surface of a film with the waves reflecting from the bottom surface. To obtain a nice colored pattern, the thickness of the film has to be on the order of the wavelength of light. Consider the case of a thin film of oil floating on water.
The thickness of the film relative to the wavelength of light is the other crucial factor in thin-film interference. Ray 2 in Figure 3.5.3 3.5. 3 travels a greater distance than ray 1. For light incident perpendicular to the surface, ray 2 travels a distance approximately 2t 2 t farther than ray 1.
1.7: Thin Films. One of the most revealing examples of interference occurs when light interacts with a thin film of transparent material such as a soap bubble. Figure 1.14 shows how a plane wave normally incident on the film is partially reflected by the front and rear surfaces. The waves reflected off the front and rear surfaces of the film ...
B24: Thin Film Interference. As the name and context imply, thin-film interference is another interference phenomenon involving light. Here’s the picture, as viewed from above: Involved are three transparent media: medium 1, medium 2, and medium 3, of index of refraction n1, n2, and n3, respectively. (In general, a medium is a substance, but ...
Slits, gratings, and the Rayleigh limit involve equations. Step 7. For thin film interference, you will have constructive interference for a total shift that is an integral number of wavelengths. You will have destructive interference for a total shift of a half-integral number of wavelengths.
Thin film. A thin film is a layer of material ranging from fractions of a nanometer ( monolayer) to several micrometers in thickness. [1] The controlled synthesis of materials as thin films (a process referred to as deposition) is a fundamental step in many applications. A familiar example is the household mirror, which typically has a thin ...
This page titled 3.5: Thin Film Interference is shared under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Tom Weideman directly on the LibreTexts platform. Light slows as it goes from vacuum into transparent media, and like all waves, it is partially reflected when changing media.
