Academics show how to create a spotlight of sound with LEGO-like bricks
Academics have created devices capable of manipulating sound in the same way as light—creating exciting new opportunities in entertainment and public communication.
Academics have created devices capable of manipulating sound in the same way as light—creating exciting new opportunities in entertainment and public communication.
General Physics
May 7, 2019
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A team of engineers at Tufts University has developed a series of 3-D printed metamaterials with unique microwave or optical properties that go beyond what is possible using conventional optical or electronic materials. The ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 8, 2019
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Sandia National Laboratories has created the first inverse-design software for optical metamaterials—meaning users start by describing the result they want, and the software fills in the steps to get there. The modern design ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 27, 2019
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Manipulating light in a variety of ways—shrinking its wavelength and allowing it to travel freely in one direction while stopping it cold in another—hyperbolic metamaterials have wide application in optical communications ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 19, 2018
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Engineers at Caltech and ETH Zürich in Switzerland have created a method to systematically design metamaterials using principles of quantum mechanics.
Engineering
Jan 18, 2018
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Optical lenses that can see features smaller than the wavelength of light cannot be made from conventional materials. Creating "hyperlenses" that can take ultra-sharp images needs both designer materials (that is, metamaterials) ...
Nanophysics
May 31, 2017
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An international team of researchers from Moscow State University (Russia), Sandia National Laboratories (U.S.), and Friedrich-Schiller University (Germany) have devised an ultrafast tunable metamaterial based on gallium ...
Optics & Photonics
May 18, 2017
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Metamaterials don't exist in nature, but their ability to make ultra-thin lenses and ultra-efficient cell phone antennas, bend light to keep satellites cooler and let photovoltaics absorb more energy mean they offer a world ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 9, 2017
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method that enables them to manipulate light to follow any predetermined path along a surface. The innovation has now been described as one of the world's ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 29, 2016
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Researchers have designed a device that uses light to manipulate its mechanical properties. The device, which was fabricated using a plasmomechanical metamaterial, operates through a unique mechanism that couples its optical ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 10, 2016
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