July Lecture: Metamaterials - cloaks of invisibility fact or fiction?
Fri 25 Jul 08 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre A (adjacent to the School of Physics)
Presented by Associate Professor Ann Roberts, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Until recently it was thought that all transparent materials bent light the same way. But a new class of metamaterials have been discovered that bend light in the opposite way to all previous materials. They have the previously considered impossible property of a negative index and promise extraordinary new capabilities including super sharp lenses, biosensors, quantum information processing devices and perhaps even cloaks that render objects invisible.
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