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“Transparent” photonics chip may lead to cloaks of invisibility
- bluedanieru 15y agoCrap article which headline ignores the more immediate and perhaps even more intriguing results in favor of link-bait bullshit from the last paragraph, probably said in passing and almost certainly pulled out of someone's ass: >Finally, according to Chee Wei Wong, the lead researcher, this breakthrough might lead us towards a cloak of invisibility. We can now control the flow of light, the fastest thing known to us. This can [potentially lead to] an approach to cloak or hide objects, at least in the small-scale. What utter garbage.
- randall 15y agoCare to elaborate? I'm curious what the other applications are of these chips. (I didn't RTFA because of your comment.)
- iliis 15y agoI don't really see the breaktrought here. As far as I can see (I'm not an expert), they managed to keep the phase undisturbed. Metamaterials as such aren't exactly new, but certainly very interesting. Wikipedia is very informative on this topic (with a long list of applications): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial More about the cloaking (which there is already some success with): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial_cloaking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial_cloaking And yeah, the article doesn't seem very professional: > A metamaterial is an artificial material that is engineered to have properties that can’t be found in nature. Wikipedia: > Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature.