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General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Mar 7, 2016

Engineers develop flexible skin that traps radar waves, cloaks objects

Iowa State University engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable "meta-skin" that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of radar.

Optics & Photonics Feb 26, 2016

Beyond invisibility—engineering light with metamaterials

Since ancient times, people have experimented with light, cherishing shiny metals like gold and cutting gemstones to brighten their sparkles. Today we are far more advanced in how we work with this ubiquitous energy.

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Feb 25, 2016

Quantum physicist tame a so-called 'dark state' created in a superconducting qubit

A team of quantum physicists at Aalto University led by Dr. Sorin Paraoanu managed to tame a so-called "dark state" created in a superconducting qubit. A superconducting qubit is an artificial atom fabricated on a silicon ...

Nanomaterials Feb 3, 2016

Smallest lattice structure worldwide

3-D lattice with glassy carbon struts and braces of less than 200 nm in diameter has higher specific strength than most solids.

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Jan 28, 2016

Fast-moving invisibility cloaks become visible

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—Âé¶¹ÒùÔºicists have found that invisibility cloaks that can achieve perfect invisibility when not in motion will become visible when moving at speeds of around thousands of meters per second. This is because invisibility ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 11, 2016

One-way light beam can be steered in different directions

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—Over the past few years, scientists have demonstrated the phenomenon of "one-way light," in which a light beam propagates in one direction only. The materials used to achieve this effect can be thought of as ...

Plants & Animals Jan 7, 2016

Post-exercise fog muddies a see-through shrimp's cloak of invisibility

For many of us, daily exercise poses little more risk to our overall safety than few minutes of flush or rapid heartbeat. But for the see-through Ancylomenes pedersoni, or Pederson's cleaner shrimp, their physiological response ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 29, 2015

Scientists propose a metasurface for the anomalous scattering of visible light

A team of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics and Technology (MIPT) and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics at the Russian Academy of Sciences has proposed a two-dimensional metamaterial composed of silver ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Dec 3, 2015

Magnetic invisibility cloak shields magnets from magnetic fields

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—Typically when two magnets are brought close together, they either attract or repel each other due to interactions between their magnetic fields. In a new study, researchers have designed a 3D magnetic invisibility ...

Nanophysics Dec 2, 2015

Optical metacage blocks light from entering or escaping

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—Âé¶¹ÒùÔºicists have built a nanowire cage that blocks one or more wavelengths of light from either entering or escaping, yet allows liquids and gases to pass through the small gaps between the nanowires. The "optical ...

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