澳大利亚堪培拉的澳大利亚国立大学物理研究院的科研人员用实验证明:在特定条件下能制作出一种几乎全透明的非导电金属薄膜。这一重大发明归因于等离子物理的基础研究(利用等离子体来研究光吸收现象)。预计这种“透明金属”有许多重要的实际应用,尤其在光通信领域,情况更是如此。从事导致该发明的最初理论研究工作的是:物理研究院工程物理系激光物理实验室的研究员Ranko Dragila博士和赴该实验室访问四个月之久的贝尔格莱德物理研究所Slobadan Vukovic博士。这个现象也许很有用,这并非是因为它使金属透明的方法简易,而是因为此类现象赖以产生的条件,即当光以某个角度投射到用作介电材料(能承 Researchers at the Institute of Physics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, experimentally demonstrated that under certain conditions, a nearly completely transparent non-conductive metal film can be produced. This major invention is attributed to the basic research of plasma physics (the use of plasma to study light absorption phenomena). This “transparent metal” is expected to have many important practical applications, especially in the field of optical communications. Dr. Ranko Dragila, a researcher at the Laser Physics Laboratory in the Department of Engineering Physics of the Institute of Physics and Dr. Slobadan Vukovic at the Belgrade Institute of Physics who visited the laboratory for four months, led the first theoretical work that led to the invention. This phenomenon may be useful, not because of the ease with which the metal is transparent, but because of the conditions under which this phenomenon occurs when light is projected at some angle into the dielectric material