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Metamaterials interact with light in ways that appear to violate the laws of physics. They can bend light around an object as if it weren’t there, or narrow the resolution of light microscopes ...

Bending and Twisting Light. ... we face a severe trade-off between how big the cloaked object can be and how many colors of light we can cloak it for.

A Bendable, Light-Bending Material. ... So, yes—there’s some grounds for [an invisibility cloak]. Not tomorrow. But that’s what I’ll be working on,” says Di Falco. hide.

This cloak can hide an object from red light at 700-nanometer wavelengths but fails at the shorter wavelengths of green and blue light, the researchers report in the June 1 Optics Letters.

But bending light so that it passes round a region of space and emerges travelling along the same line as it was initially is a difficult trick, requiring an invisibility cloak made from materials ...

The cloak works by using arrays of gold nanoantennas, with each one manipulating the phase of the light wave that is scattered off the cloak. When a cloaked object is illuminated by 730-nanometer ...

To similarly cloak something from electromagnetic radiation, Smith and Schurig must bend the incoming beam around the object in a tightly controlled manner. They managed to do so using a class of ...

Harry Potter eat your heart out! Scientists develop an 'invisibility shield' that can hide objects by bending light. The invisibility shield uses a special lens array to redirect light ...