New Photonics Breakthrough Could Lead to Unprecedented Internet Data Speeds
A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in…
Metamaterials
New 3D-Printed Lattice Designs Are Ultra-Lightweight and Ultra-Stiff, Despite Breaking the Rules
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have designed a new class of 3D-printed lattice structures that combine lightweight and high stiffness, despite breaking a rule…
Silk Fibers May Represent Natural Metamaterials, Capable of light Confinement
New research has demonstrated how the nano-architecture of a silkworm’s fiber causes “Anderson localization of light,” a discovery that could lead to various innovations and…
Science Breakthrough – Researchers Develop World’s First Quantum Metamaterial
An international team consisting of Russian and German scientists has made a breakthrough in the creation of seemingly impossible materials. They have managed to create…
Scientists Develop an Ultrathin Invisibility Cloak
A team of scientists have invented an ultra-thin invisibility cloak that can conform to the shape of an object and conceal it from detection with…
Physicists Create a Magnetic Wormhole for the First Time
Physicists have created the first experimental wormhole that can connect two regions of space magnetically. It consists of a tunnel that transfers the magnetic field…
Physicists Make Objects Invisible without Metamaterial Cloaking
A team of physicists has managed to make homogenous cylindrical objects completely invisible in the microwave range without relying on metamaterial coatings. The method is…
‘Digital Metamaterials’ Bring Invisibility Cloaks Closer to Reality
A newly published study details how “digital metamaterials” could help bring invisibly cloaks closer to reality. The concept of “digital metamaterials” – a simple way…
New Terahertz Modulator Could Lead to More Advanced Medical and Security Imaging
Researchers from UCLA have developed a terahertz modulator that performs across a wide range of the terahertz band with very high efficiency and signal clarity,…
Kit Researchers Create Mechanical Invisibility Cloak
Using metamaterials, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology developed a mechanical invisibility cloak that hides objects from touch. In the past years, invisibility cloaks…
Nanoparticle Thin Films That Self-Assemble in One Minute
By combining supramolecules based on block copolymers with gold nanoparticles, Berkeley Lab researchers have created self-assembling nanoparticle arrays that can form a highly ordered thin…
Metal-Dielectric Epitaxial Superlattice Brings ‘Hyperbolic Metamaterials’ Closer to Reality
Researchers from Purdue University have created superlattices from layers of metal titanium nitride and aluminum scandium nitride, bringing “hyperbolic metamaterials” closer to reality. West Lafayette,…
Engineers Demonstrate Active Electromagnetic Cloaking
By surrounding an object with small antennas that collectively radiate an electromagnetic field, engineers demonstrate active electromagnetic cloaking. Invisibility cloaking is no longer the stuff…
Metamaterial Lens Has Ten Times More Power than Any Current Lens
Researchers from the University of Sidney have developed a metamaterial lens that has ten times the resolution of any current lens. A lens with ten…
New Metamaterial Gives Visible Light a Nearly Infinite Wavelength
By stacking nanoscale layers of silver and silicon nitride, scientists have fabricated a metamaterial that gives visible light a nearly infinite wavelength. Researchers from the…
Thermal Cloak Molds the Flow of Heat Around an Object
Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have constructed a micro-structured thermal cloak that molds the flow of heat around an object. By means of…
New Metamaterial Doubles the Range of Light that Can Be Manipulated
By designing a broadband metamaterial that more than doubles the range of wavelengths of light that can be manipulated, Stanford scientists have taken an important…
Nanometer-Scale Material Capable of Straightening and Speeding Up Light Waves
A newly published study details how a specially designed “meta-atom” of gold and silicon oxide can transmit light through a wide bandwidth and at a…
