Sentences with phrase «optical invisibility»

Zhang and his group have already exploited the linear optical properties of metamaterials to create the world's first optical invisibility cloak and mimic black holes.

«Ideal optical invisibility cloaks in air have a drawback,» Martin Wegener points out.

The laws of physics prevent an optical invisibility cloak from making objects in air invisible for any directions, colors, and polarizations.

In their work with metamaterials, Zhang and his research group have generated the world's first optical invisibility cloak, mimicked black holes, and created the first plasmonic nanolasers.

Not exact matches

Engineers are working with metamaterials to create super-microscopes, optical computers, and yes, invisibility cloaks.

It was in the summer of 2008 that Zhang's group took the first small step toward creating a real - world invisibility cloak by fabricating the first optical metamaterial to work in three dimensions.

Besides invisibility cloaks, ideas have been floated to exploit metamaterials for high - resolution optical «superlenses», devices to better...

But Shalaev and Pendry note that the ultimate application of the technology may not involve invisibility at all but could instead facilitate more powerful optical communication links and circuits.

The new work by Levitov and his colleagues provides one piece of such a system — and potentially of other advanced electro - optical systems, he says, such as negative - refraction materials that have been proposed as a kind of «invisibility cloak.»

Alessandro Tuniz at the University of Sydney's Institute of Photonics and Optical Science in Australia is one of many physicists interested in the optical metamaterials that are being fashioned into «invisibility cloaks» in labs across theOptical Science in Australia is one of many physicists interested in the optical metamaterials that are being fashioned into «invisibility cloaks» in labs across theoptical metamaterials that are being fashioned into «invisibility cloaks» in labs across the world.

He has made pioneering discoveries in plasmonic cloaking (caused by the interaction of light and metal nanostructures) and invisibility, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas, non-reciprocal devices, and giant nonlinear response in optical metamaterials.

Collectively, they opened the door to possibilities that range from optical computing to invisibility cloaks.

The winners of the 2014 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience — Thomas Ebbesen, Stefan Hell and Sir John Pendry — discuss breaking the limits of what we can do with light and opening the door to possibilities ranging from optical computing to invisibility cloaks.