News tagged with optical cloaking
Silicon photonic crystals key to optical cloaking
Jun 25, 2008 |
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In computer simulations, the researchers have demonstrated an approximate cloaking effect created by concentric rings of silicon photonic crystals. The mathematical proof brings scientists a step closer to a practical solution ...
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Broadband invisibility in the microwave range
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the series Star Trek, Klingons and Romulans have spaceships outfitted with cloaking devices that hide their presence from sight, as well as from the sensors of their rivals' spaceships. Unlike current invisi ...
Scientists closer to making invisibility cloak a reality
Mar 05, 2009 |
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J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter's invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists, however, have ...
Next generation cloaking device demonstrated
Jan 15, 2009 |
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A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype ...
Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually. A team of researchers at the ...
Professor working on practical cloaking device (w/ Video)
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of St Andrews hopes to make major advances in the 'tantalising' field of invisibility in the next two years. Professor Ulf Leonhardt, who cites the Invisible Woman and Harry ...
Invisibility Cloak Blurs Line Between Magic and Science (w/Video)
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The great science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously noted the similarities between advanced technology and magic. This summer on the big screen, the young wizard Harry Potter will once ...
A 'cloaking device' -- it's all done with mirrors
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, ...
New 'broadband' cloaking technology simple to manufacture
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs and works for all colors of the visible spectrum, making it possible to cloak larger objects ...
A New Cloaking Method: This is not a 'Star Trek' or 'Harry Potter' Story (w/ Video)
Aug 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, ...
Using invisibility to increase visibility
Nov 27, 2008 |
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Research into the development of invisibility devices has spurred two physicists' thought on the behaviour of light to overcome the seemingly intractable problem of optical singularities which could soon lead to the manufacturing ...
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