Bringing Back the Magic In Metamaterials

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:12AM from the making-things-better dept.

Charliemopps writes: Though it's 30 years late, transparent aluminum, as predicted in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, may finally be here. There have been many attempts to create transparent metals in the past few years, and some have been somewhat successful, if only for a few femtoseconds. But now, by modifying metals like silver and aluminum at the subwavelength scale, researchers are developing "Meta-Materials" that cause light to interact with these metals in new and interesting ways. One of their more promising goals is to create a "perfect lens" which would allow an everyday person to view things as small as a virus with the naked eye.

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What? by ArcadeMan · 2015-07-20 11:28 · Score: 4, Funny

One of their more promising goals is to create a "perfect lens" which would allow an every day person to view things as small as a virus with the naked eye.
What do you mean? You guys can't see viruses with the naked eye?

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Re:Illumination wavelength by Zaelath · 2015-07-20 13:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Not to mention; how naked is the eye with a lens over it?
Wait... do you mean I'm NAKED under all these CLOTHES???!