The discovery could help scientists simulate how particles behaved just after the Big Bang or lead to the development of new devices with
unusual electromagnetic properties.
Traditional perovskites are typically metal - oxide materials that display a wide range of
fascinating electromagnetic properties, including ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity, superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance.
«These meta - atoms can be integrated as building blocks for unconventional optical components with
exotic electromagnetic properties over a wide frequency range,» write Dr. Jie Gao and Dr. Xiaodong Yang, assistant professors of mechanical engineering at Missouri S&T, and Dr. Lei Sun, a visiting scholar at the university.
Key to this technology are gold nanoparticles, infinitesimally tiny bits of gold
whose electromagnetic properties enhance the chemical signature of whatever molecules happen to be close by.
Metamaterials — artificial nanostructures engineered with
electromagnetic properties not found in nature — offer tantalizing future prospects such as high resolution optical microscopes and superfast optical computers.
Within months a team led by David Smith of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, had built such a device using exotic «metamaterials» — materials with
unusual electromagnetic properties that are not found in nature.
First, it has long been rumored that the Amber has
electromagnetic properties that can be used to protect us from the harmful effects of electrical equipment such as computers, televisions, and microwaves.
However, it is not the mineral's
electromagnetic properties that have been getting the attention of mothers of teething children.
The development of structured synthetic materials with unusual
electromagnetic properties, so - called metamaterials, promises to provide access to special physical effects of great technological interest.
New discoveries could be in store as the device now checks other features of neutrinos, including
their electromagnetic properties.
Tomoya Ono and Kinkuji Hirose at Osaka University in southern Japan performed computer simulations to determine
the electromagnetic properties of helical gold nanowires.
We can actually change
the electromagnetic properties of a material, and as far as light is concerned, it looks as though we have bent space.