Reproducing a Monet Painting With Aluminum Nanostructures

MTorrice writes: Plasmonic printing is a recently developed method to create color images using different shapes and sizes of gold or silver nanostructures. It relies on the oscillations of electrons in the metal surfaces and can produce images with a resolution 100 times that of a common desktop printer. Now researchers have expanded the color palette of the technique using tiny aluminum-capped nanopillars. Each pixel consists of four nanopillars; tuning the diameters and arrangement of the pillars produced a palette of more than 300 different colors. Using these pixels, the researchers created a microscale reproduction of Claude Monet's "Impression, Sunrise."

Intel Inside?

[complete loony]

So new chips could waste die space to include a holographic company logo?

Amazing

[ArcadeMan]

I click on the "enlarge" button and I get images of the exact same size!

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[Charliemopps]

I click on the "enlarge" button and I get images of the exact same size!

The pictures are nano-scale duh.

Same size.

[leuk_he]

That is called a exact reproduction. ;)

Tommy James / Billy Idol

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

I love you Monet [youtube.com] Monet [youtube.com]...

And you thought ink was already expensive!

[disposable60]

Ink already costs more per fluid ounce than gold, now they wanna add actual GOLD!

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[viperidaenz]

No, now they're replacing gold with aluminium.

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[Hal_Porter]

We don't use 'aluminum' or 'aluminium' anymore. They new Unified English® spelling is 'aluminininium'.

Re:And you thought ink was already expensive!

[PPH]

Well, it takes money to make Monet.

Monet...

[Anonymous Coward]

He was the original clod.

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[disposable60]

But very sensitive.

Applications

[davide marney]

That sample image is only 50 microns wide, barely as wide across as a human hair. That's one small security tag, my friend.

Good thing the copyright has expired

[Bob the Super Hamste]

Good thing the copyright has expired. Maybe that is why Monet isn't creating any more work.

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[ComputerInsultant]

The copyright may have expired, but "The researchers adapted the original image with permission from Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, France/Giraudon/Bridgeman Images."

So they completely ignored the fact that the art is public domain. Argh.

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[cryptizard]

The original painting is in the public domain, but the museum's photograph of the painting may not be. In the US it would, but I gather that in other countries (and this work wasn't done in the US) the situation can be different.

Clearly 'shopped

[Muad'Dave]

Oh, come on! That pic is clearly 'shopped. You can tell by the shading of the nano-pillars!

~joke

microscale impressionism

[mr_mischief]

At some point shrinking impressionist art pretty much just makes it.. art, right?