Plasmonic metamaterials: From microscopes to invisibility cloaks

Friday, January 21, 2011 - 14:00 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of artificial materials called metamaterials -- which derive their properties from carefully engineered, nanostructured building blocks rather than from their chemical composition -- may one day be used to create ultrapowerful microscopes, advanced sensors, improved solar cells, computers that use light instead of electronic signals to process information, and even an invisibility cloak.

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