Tuesday, July 27, 2010

BrainkBank: Invisiblus Infraredus Edition

We have an invisibility cloak, rarin' to go. And by an invisibility cloak, I mean a "cloak" composed of metallic metamaterials, using tiny resonators made of chalcogenide glass arranged in spokes around the object. I only understand how about a quarter of the words in that description work, so I'm just going to go with "it's magic."

Unfortunately, it's not quite ready to go for normal light yet, per se, so we don't quite have Harry Potter's fabled invisibility cloak just yet.

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