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Optics & Photonics May 18, 2011

Karlsruhe invisibility cloak: Disappearing visibly

"Seeing something invisible with your own eyes is an exciting experience," say Joachim Fischer and Tolga Ergin. For about one year, both physicists and members of the team of Professor Martin Wegener at KIT's Center for Functional ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics May 2, 2011

3-D Terahertz cloaking

Invisibility appears to be the next possible advance in the use of Terahertz radiation in medicine, security, and communications.

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics May 1, 2011

Full 3-D invisibility cloak in visible light

Watching things disappear "is an amazing experience," admits Joachim Fischer of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. But making items vanish is not the reason he creates invisibility cloaks. Rather, the magic-like ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 27, 2011

Researchers create terahertz invisibility cloak

Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of cloaking material that can render objects invisible in the terahertz range.

Optics & Photonics Apr 19, 2011

Miniature invisibility 'carpet cloak' hides more than its small size implies

Invisibility cloaks are seemingly futuristic devices capable of concealing very small objects by bending and channeling light around them. Until now, however, cloaking techniques have come with a significant limitation—they ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Apr 5, 2011

Force of acoustical waves tapped for metamaterials

A very simple bench-top technique that uses the force of acoustical waves to create a variety of 3D structures will benefit the rapidly expanding field of metamaterials and their myriad applications -- including "invisibility ...

Archaeology Mar 18, 2011

Cantor exhibition depicts how ancient world used color, how science reveals the faded past

With the silent attentiveness of a physician, Ivy Nguyen passes her hands over the recumbent white lady in the darkened lab. She cradles a handheld black light in her fingers.

Biochemistry Mar 9, 2011

An advance toward blood transfusions that require no typing

Scientists are reporting an "important step" toward development of a universal blood product that would eliminate the need to "type" blood to match donor and recipient before transfusions. A report on the "immunocamouflage" ...

Mathematics Mar 8, 2011

Now you see him

Imagine if Harry Potter’s cloak were real , or that you could blot out the sight of something as easily as pressing a mute button to eliminate sound. To some, this seems like “pi in the sky” – fantastic ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 7, 2011

Scientists reverse Doppler Effect

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Researchers from Swinburne University and the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology have for the first time ever demonstrated a reversal of the optical ‘Doppler Effect’ – an advance ...

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