News tagged with electromagnetic cloaking

New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view

For the first time, scientists have devised an invisibility cloak material that hides objects from detection using light that is visible to humans. The new device is a leap forward in cloaking materials, according to a report ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Physicists describe how to make time-reversed light pulses

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the properties of periodic systems, physicists have described how to efficiently time-reverse ultrashort electromagnetic pulses. Since a time-reversed pulse evolves ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 44 | with audio podcast feature

Invisibility cloak that generates virtual images gets closer to realization

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a twist on the concept of an invisibility cloak, researchers have designed a material that not only makes an object invisible, but also generates one or more virtual images in its place. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

Broadband invisibility in the microwave range

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the series Star Trek, Klingons and Romulans have spaceships outfitted with cloaking devices that hide their presence from sight, as well as from the sensors of their rivals' spaceships. Unlike current invisi ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1 feature

A New Cloaking Method: This is not a 'Star Trek' or 'Harry Potter' Story (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 5

The guiding of light: A new metamaterial device steers beams along complex pathways

Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide electromagnetic waves around objects such as the corner ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 8

Scientists closer to making invisibility cloak a reality

J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter's invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists, however, have ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (25) | comments 8

Next generation cloaking device demonstrated

A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 10