A group of researchers from the Department of Physics at UAB (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) have designed a device, called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light - very low frequency ...
General Physics
Jul 7, 2009
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Invisibility cloaks are seemingly futuristic devices capable of concealing very small objects by bending and channeling light around them. Until now, however, cloaking techniques have come with a significant limitation—they ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 19, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years scientists have explored the impossible by developing invisibility or 'cloaking' devices, but can the same technology also help make things more visible?
Optics & Photonics
Jun 30, 2009
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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 of a building or ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 31, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of St Andrews hopes to make major advances in the 'tantalising' field of invisibility in the next two years. Professor Ulf Leonhardt, who cites the Invisible Woman and Harry ...
General Physics
Aug 20, 2009
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Many people anticipating the creation of an invisibility cloak might be surprised to learn that a group of American researchers has created 25 000 individual cloaks.
General Physics
May 24, 2012
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A metamaterial invisibility cloak that can adapt to hide different sized objects is demonstrated by in Nature Communications this week. The findings represent a useful advance for more practical applications of metamaterial ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 21, 2012
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(Phys.org) —Scientists have discovered a natural temperature sensor in a type of bacteria that causes meningitis and blood poisoning. The sensor allows the bacteria to evade the body's immune response, leading to life-threatening ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 26, 2013
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Physicists at the Australian National University have developed the most sensitive method ever for measuring the potential energy of an atom (within a hundredth of a decillionth of a joule—or 10-35 joule), and used it to ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 8, 2022
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(Phys.org) —Michigan Technological University's invisibility cloak researchers have done it again. They've moved the bar on one of the holy grails of physics: making objects invisible. Just last month, Elena Semouchkina, ...
General Physics
Mar 25, 2013
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