Can we get a layman's intro to spectrometers? Here is my understanding: Light of various wavelengths is sent through a material. In this case, a silver particle of a given diameter will absorb light of a particular wavelength which is some function of the particle's diameter. Therefore only some fraction of light with that wavelength will reach a receiver on the other side of material. Light of wavelengths greater than any particle can absorb, according to this relation, will 100% reach the receiver. Based on how much of each wavelength of light reaches the reciever, the plots are made.
Is this a correct understanding? ~David
