the Ferrocell

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Good to hear from you again, konduct
I haven't been around for a while, either. I was totally involved with another project.
But got back into the cell last year to pick up where I left off in 2009.
I did a demo at the IEEE Photonics Conference last October in San Diego Ca and blew some minds.
Most people didn't have a clue and couldn't quite get their minds around it.
Stunned would be a good word. These were scientists!

Recently I decided to simplify things. It really is a cell, not a lens. And the ferro part is a no-brainer.

Yes, the previous pix has a ring of LED's around it. 36 RGBY.

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Here's a pix from one of my latest experiments: a ring of 36 (each 10 deg apart) RGBW LED's around a 1.2 T cube magnet
under a 4mmx100mm cell. I've inserted a white plastic ring between the magnet and LED's to block the direct light.
This is a prime example of Surface Plasmons following the field.



see hi-res pix at http://www.ferrocell.us/images/cube%20magnet%20edge-lit%20with%20blocking%20ring.JPG

Surface Plasmons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_plasmon

[TinselKoala]

It's nice that in that image we can finally see that the LEDs are actually separate red, green, blue and white, not single units. So the ferrocell itself isn't separating white light into its components, but rather reflecting the light from the individually colored LEDs that are in spatially separate locations.

I think this clears up certain .... shall we say...  misconceptions about the operation of the device in the description given by someone else.

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...  misconceptions about the operation of the device in the description given by someone else.

Well I've had a difficult time explaining this technology. Only recently, 2 researchers confirmed the same fundamental effects independent from one another. It's been determined that it generates surface plasmons using LED and other low-level light sources.
The results we have from laser experiments haven't been verified yet... they are mind-boggling.
It's an on-going process that I probably won't live long enough to see integrated into computers and communication devices. And plasmons are the future. I've come up with a different recipe than the 'status-quo' have and without help from independent experimenters, It doesn't have a chance.
If I was rich, I'd just give them away. Actually, I have given out quite a few over the past 10 years.

As for the color thing, there is a bit of 'doppler shift' going on, too. Blue slows down to violet, red down to orange-red, and green changes hue.
My next experiment will show spectrometer graphs of the cells' absorption spectrum at different colors (wavelengths) as they pass thru.
The light ring contains 9 each of red, green, blue and white LED's. Look closely at the previous picture and you can see how the spectrum changed.
White is now yellow. Blue is violet...

In a nut-shell, this cell is making new waves from light and magnetism.

[Jimboot]

Every school should have one.