Scientists count microscopic particles without a microscope
Counting microscopic particles is hard, but researchers from Russia and Australia believe they've found a way to make it easier.
Tag: metamaterial
Islamic art inspires metamaterial that grows when stretched
A new type of metamaterial that can grow when stretched, with possible applications for medical equipment and satellites, was inspired ...
Magnetic Mirror reflects Light like No Other. Opens new suit of Optical Applications
In Lewis Caroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), the sequel to the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ...
Touch invisibility cloak prevents objects from being felt
With the finger or a force measurement instrument, no information is obtained about the bottom side of the material. Credit: ...
Microwave harvester converts wireless energy into direct current with solar cell-like efficiency
This five-cell metamaterial converts stray microwave energy, as from a WiFi hub, into more than 7 volts of electricity with ...
Human-sized invisibility cloak makes use of magic trick to hide large objects
Invisibility cloaks have become the object of study for many research institutes out of a number of considerations. There's the ...
New invisibility cloak takes things to the next level
It may be a little off to talk about invisibility when we're not even in the visible spectrum, but 'invisibility ...
Microwave metamaterial camera images in real time. It’s only a fraction of the size current devices are
Scientists at Duke University have devised a metamaterial that uses microwaves to image objects or scenes in real time, all ...
New metamaterial focuses radio waves with extreme precision similar to Star Wars’ Death Star
Researchers at MIT have created a new metamaterial that they used to fashion a concave lens capable of focusing radio ...
Nanomaterial converts light and heat into electricity
(c) Yi-Hsuan Tseng et al./Nanotechnolog Previously, scientists have managed to devise material that can convert light into electricity, and other ...
Scientists cloak 3D object in microwave spectrum
The much dreamed off invisibility cloak is just a few tiny steps away, after remarkable research in the field, many ...
‘Time Cloaking’ remarkable experiment hides event in time
Cloaking used to be one of my favorite SciFi themes. James Bond supercars that would show up or disappear instantly ...
