Cutting-Edge Nanotechnology at Home
This innovative apparatus is really impressive! The usability and affordability of Quantum Particle In a Box allows you to complete a series of experiments and demonstrations involving quantum mechanics and artificial atoms on your own.
This unique kit includes a set of four removable vials in an aluminum casing. When illuminated by and LED source of roughly 405 nm the different vials radiate four distinct wavelengths. These wavelengths are dependent on the size of the quantum dot, or nanobead, suspended in the solution.
The physical size of the quantum dots effects the wavelengths they can absorb and emit.
Measuring the emitted wavelengths with a digital spectrometer allows you to calculate the actual size of the quantum dot using Schrödinger's equation. And, placing the vials in a spectrophotometer allows the absorption of the different solutions to be compared and contrasted.