Metamaterials are carefully engineered materials that possess desirable properties and can be used to manipulate electromagnetic, acoustic, or other types of waves in interesting ways. Some materials ...

A study developed by researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), associated with the Nanophotonics Technology Center (NTC) and the company DAS Photonics, promises to revolutionize ...

The idea of an invisibility cloak may sound more like magic than science, but researchers are currently hard at work producing devices that can scatter and bend light in such a way that it creates the ...

Invisibility has quietly shifted from fantasy to engineering problem, and the most convincing proof is not a shimmering cape but a magnetic cloaking device that makes fields themselves vanish from ...

The phenom known as wizard Harry Potter may be coming to the end of its book and movie run, but one special effect from the series could become reality in a future theater of war. "Cloak of ...

An AI-designed invisibility cloak should be able to hide objects from infrared light or microwaves and be made from readily available materials. The device, which is currently being built, could ...

There’s a well-known story in Plato’s Republic in which a humble shepherd named Gyges finds a magical gold ring that renders whoever wears it invisible. Gyges proceeds to use his newfound power to ...

In “Invisibility,” the professor of physics and optical science Gregory J. Gbur examines the past and future of everyone’s favorite plot device. By Nathaniel Rich When you purchase an independently ...

H z component diagram when the point source is placed at r = R1 (a) in vacuum and (b) α-MoO3 invisibility concentrator and r = R2 in (c) vacuum and (d) α-MoO3 invisibility concentrator, respectively. ...

Invisibility devices may soon no longer be the stuff of science fiction. A new study published in the De Gruyter journal Nanophotonics by lead authors Huanyang Chen at Xiamen University, China, and ...