Tag Archives: metamaterials

Promising new material: Electronic and optically active photonic crystals

News: Photonics    August 1, 2011
Although it’s not as tricky as producing new drugs for medicine, developing new materials for commercial electronics is usually no sure thing. There is a long path of testing and development between the first prototype material and something that can be manufactured in large quantities and used in a variety of products. On top of [...]
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Transformation optics: the light fantastic

Impact: Photonics    January 17, 2011
Third in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell development, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. The original articles are now behind a [...]
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