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Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006
John McHale |
Purdue researchers develop material for better optics, communications "Negative index of refraction" in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications could lead to better communications and imaging technologies.   |
Technology Research News
May 18, 2005 |
Thin Silver Sheet Makes Superlens Researchers have fashioned a superlens from a thin sheet of silver that resolves images as small as 60 nanometers using 365-nanometer light. |
Chemistry World
March 22, 2007
Tom Westgate |
The Metamaterials Space Race The technology that makes invisibility shields a theoretical possibility took a major step forward with reports of a material that bends visible light away from itself. |
Technology Research News
November 5, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Crystal bends light back Being able to bend light backwards is extremely useful. This negative refraction is controversial in physics circles and has only been demonstrated using artificial materials containing metal loops. It turns out that a common natural crystal has harbored this capability all along. |
Technology Research News
May 15, 2006
Eric Smalley |
ICL's John Pendry An interview with the condensed matter theorist who has conducted extensive research on the interaction of electrons and photons with surfaces. |
PC Magazine
June 8, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
Sharper Image at Nanoscale Scientists have created a superlens that overcomes a limitation in physics that has constrained the resolution of optical images. |
PC Magazine
May 2, 2007
John Brandon |
Future Watch: An Invisibility Suit Science is finally catching up with science fiction. |
Technology Research News
April 23, 2003 |
Material makes backwards lens Researchers from the University of Toronto have constructed a prototype lens composed of a network of wires and tiny split rings that causes microwaves to have a negative bend, or index of refraction. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Justin Mullins |
Long Shot It sounds too good to be true: high-quality flat lenses that focus light and can be made in sheets and cut to size. That's the promise of a new class of materials with a negative refractive index that bend light in the opposite direction from conventional materials. |
Chemistry World
May 26, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
The Invisible Man Made Real Cloaks that make objects invisible will be made within 18 months, say scientists. Changes to sub-wavelength structural details, rather than the chemical composition of these materials, will make objects disappear before our eyes, claims the team. |
Popular Mechanics
August 12, 2008
Daniel H. Wilson |
Why Invisible Men Aren't as Close as You Think ... Yet Invisibility, this week's peer-reviewed hype would have you believe, isn't just for pre-pubescent boy wizards anymore. But I wouldn't start sewing your Harry Potter-style magic cloak just yet, geeks and geekettes. |
Technology Research News
January 15, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Plastic process produces puny pores The size of the microscopic pores in a material determines how the material scatters the sun's rays and how much light will shine through. Making microscopic pores precisely the right size, however, is tricky. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2010
Edward H. Sargent |
Infrared Optoelectronics You Can Apply With a Brush Infrared quantum dots will lead to cheaper photovoltaic cells. When the fabrication of optoelectronic devices becomes almost as easy as splashing paint on a canvas, our assumptions about the high cost of high-performance optoelectronic devices will be turned on its head. |
Chemistry World
October 19, 2006
Simon Hadlington |
Invisibility Cloak is Latest Amazing `Metamaterial' Chemists beware -- the metamaterialists are making startling progress. The latest structure composed of a metamaterial is a remarkable cloaking device that can render an object invisible to microwave radiation -- in two dimensions at least. |
Smithsonian
June 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Presto! Concealing an object from human vision would require metamaterials dramatically smaller than their present size. |
Chemistry World
November 27, 2014
Tim Wogan |
Cool idea for zero-carbon air conditioning that requires no power source A surface that cools in direct sunlight without a power source has been demonstrated by US researchers |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Katie M. Palmer |
Intellectual Ventures Invents Beam-Steering Metamaterials Antenna IV and others aim at cheap in-flight broadband |
Technology Research News
December 15, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Silicon Ring Boosts Light Chips Researchers have developed an all-optical switch that is made from silicon and is small enough to be made by the thousands on computer chips. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009 |
5 Metamaterials That Make Matter Invisible, Silent or Blindingly Fast When nature can't supply raw ingredients for next-generation hardware, scientists create their own. |
