seeder Posted July 29, 2014 #1 Share Posted July 29, 2014 A new technique which uses light like a needle to thread long chains of particles could help bring sci-fi concepts such as cloaking devices one step closer to reality. A new method of building materials using light, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, could one day enable technologies that are often considered the realm of science fiction, such as invisibility cloaks and cloaking devices. Although cloaked starships won’t be a reality for quite some time, the technique which researchers have developed for constructing materials with building blocks a few billionths of a metre across can be used to control the way that light flies through them, and works on large chunks all at once. Details are published today (28 July) in the journal Nature Communications. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/building-invisible-materials-with-light#sthash.JQEsYsbb.dpuf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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