Nano-Material Creates The Best Looking Holograms Ever

Scientists managed to recreate the feel of the Star Wars holograms in the lab. Key to this achievement was a new nano-material that the physicists from the Australian National University developed “from scratch” #todaymagic

This nano-material can manipulate light with extreme fidelity. It allowed scientists to control light-based projection in 3D in infrared. Moreover, it can do it without the burden of weight. In contrast to other systems, the nano-material is made from silicon pillars that are 500 times thinner than a human hair!

Besides demonstrating a cool device, scientists made it suddenly possible to bring such technology to slim devices, such as smartphones. It won’t happen today or tomorrow, but in the near future this system could enable you to create “the highest-efficiency holograms created to date.”

“As a child, I learned about the concept of holographic imaging from the Star Wars movies,” said researcher Lei Wang from the Australian National University. “It’s really cool to be working on an invention that uses the principles of holography depicted in those movies.”

Before you get too excited, remember that there’s a long way to go from factory to market. Especially since, for now, all the high-quality holograms resulted are no bigger than 5mm in width!