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New Metamaterial Means More Efficient Solar Cells

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the harness-this-stupid-sun dept.

ElectricSteve writes "Metamaterials are man-made substances designed to do some very weird things that natural materials don't. The path of a beam of light through a natural material like glass is predictable, but scientists from the California Institute of Technology have engineered an optical material that bends light in the wrong direction. This new negative-index metamaterial (NIM) could have several valuable uses including invisibility cloaking, superlensing (imaging nano-scale objects using visible light), and improved light collection in solar cells."

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  1. Oh noes by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and frikkin sharks who can fire round corners.

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  2. I wonder... by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 2, Funny

    If we'll finally get real X-Ray Specs now that would be a good use....

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    1. Re:I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Cheer

      Running so low on cheers that you can only give one out at a time now?

      </kidding>

  3. Yeah, right. by notgm · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll believe it when I don't see it.