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Invisibility Shields One Step Closer With New Metamaterials That Bend Light Backwards
URL: http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/08/11_light.shtml

Description:
This August 2008 article describes how "scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development that could help form the basis for higher resolution optical imaging, nanocircuits for high-powered computers, and ... cloaking devices that could render objects invisible to the human eye." Includes illustrations. From University of California, Berkeley, News.

LII Topics: Optics, Physics

Author:
Yang, Sarah

Publisher:
University of California, Berkeley

LII Database Information:
Record 26715 created by Maria Brandt on 08/18/2008
Last modification on 08/18/2008
Published: 08/21/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26715

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