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Material that bends light "wrong way".(ELECTRONICS)
Advanced Composites Bulletin, January, 2008
The development of a new type of composite material that can bend light the "wrong way" is moving researchers another step closer towards creation of functional devices that could have a wide range of important optical and electronic applications.
Scientists at Oregon State University and Princeton University, both USA, and Alcatel-Lucent, France, have created the first "negative index" material that could be produced in bulk form and still have the capability to bend infrared light the opposite direction of any natural material.
"We were able to use existing technology that's available for producing semiconductors to create this material, which is a multi-layered structure composed from reflective and transparent layers," said Viktor Podolskiy, an...
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