Advances in the design and manufacturing processes of photonic materials has realized new models and multifunctional devices which possess an unprecedented control of light. In a new approach, a team ...

Cloaking devices and metamaterials are hot topics in the realm of science where optics blurs into materials science. By crafting materials that can interact with specific wavelengths of light, ...

Researchers have developed a new technique for making metamaterials with nanoscale structures that can be tuned with strange optical properties. Using gold nanoparticles attached to strands of DNA ...

It has been an exciting couple of years for theorists devoted to exploring what waves can be made to do. First, it was shown that light could be induced to bend around an object, effectively rendering ...

Chinese researchers have moved a long-running science fiction fantasy into the realm of working hardware, unveiling a prototype cloak that can make a person effectively vanish from view. Instead of ...

Infrared cameras are the heat-sensing eyes that help drones find their targets even in the dead of night or through heavy fog. Hiding from such detectors could become much easier, thanks to a new ...

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking discovery: a material capable of bending light in unprecedented ways. This advancement opens up possibilities for innovations in optics, including superlenses ...

Amanda D. Hanford, at Pennsylvania State University, is taking the introductory steps to make acoustic ground cloaks. These materials redirect approaching waves around an object without scattering the ...

A strange new material has taken scientists one-step closer to a Star Trek-styled cloaking device. The new substance is a "metamaterial" that negatively refracts light. Metamaterials with this ...

Rendering things invisible sounds like it belongs in the realm of Harry Potter, but it is technically possible. Researchers from TU Wien in Austria have developed a new process that allows light waves ...