What are metamaterials and what can they do? The prefix meta (a Greek word meaning ‘beyond’) indicates that the characteristics of the material are beyond what we see in nature. Metamaterials are a ...

The conversion of CO2 into e-fuels by light offers a sustainable solution to close the carbon cycle. Researchers at the ...

Sir John Pendry’s lecture showed how engineered materials make sci-fi real, from invisibility cloaks to microscopes revealing ...

Enter Dr. Gregg's idea—she proposes using metamaterials for her starshade, which is robotically constructed in orbit. Metamaterials have several advantages over existing proposed starshades (one ...

Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with a mirror, which is ...

The field of metamaterials is an emerging discipline in the early 21st century, attracting significant attention in fundamental science and ...

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays - without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long ...

Fields like metamaterials and 'flat' two-dimensional systems based on atomically thin materials are expanding the boundaries of nanophotonics.

Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in the lab, but often have fatal stress ...

Researchers developed a new optimized printing approach that could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of microlenses, photonics crystals, micro-optical devices, metamaterials and ...

Overall behavior of composite materials and metamaterials. The fundamentals of homogenization for elastic composites, variational principles and energy-based bounds, and dynamic homogenization ...

Negative refraction of light using atoms instead of metamaterials Date: February 12, 2025 Source: Lancaster University Summary: Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be ...