Negative Refraction of Visible Light Demonstrated; Could Lead to Cloaking Devices

Negative Refraction of Visible Light Demonstrated; Could Lead to Cloaking Devices from PhysOrg.com

For the first time, physicists have devised a way to make visible light travel in the opposite direction that it normally bends when passing from one material to another, like from air through water or glass. The phenomenon is known as negative refraction and could in principle be used to construct optical microscopes for imaging things as small as molecules, and even to create cloaking devices for rendering objects invisible.

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