We note that the achievable invisibility with the proposed cloak is not perfect due to the impedance mismatch associated with the reduced material specifications and the inevitable loss in a metal ...

Although media reports have hyped the breakthrough as producing an invisibility cloak for Harry Potter, this is not the case. The ultimate result would not be flexible material. It may prove a ...

An illustration of the ultrathin "invisibility" cloak. Light reflects off the cloak (shown by the red arrows) as if it were reflecting off a flat mirror. In the movie "Predator," an alien uses a ...

Imagine throwing a cloak over your head and becoming invisible to the outside world. That possibility, once the stuff of science fiction and fantasy, could soon become a reality. An invisibility ...

Metamaterials made from metal elements initially proposed for constructing invisibility cloaks, did not solve some important cloaking problems. There are three challenges remaining. The first is ...

But in a new study, scientists have designed and fabricated an invisibility cloak that may make such a feat possible. The new cloak can conceal some arbitrarily chosen parts of objects while ...

A video purportedly showing a man demonstrating the abilities of his new invisibility cloak went viral in December 2017. Most English speaking internet users encountered this footage after it was ...

Ten years into invisibility cloak product research, they're close to becoming a manufacturable reality By Yang Hao Invisibility has long been one of the marvels in science fiction and fantasy – and ...

Two magicians physicists at the University of Rochester in New York have created an invisibility cloak capable of hiding large objects, such as humans, buses, or satellites, from visible light.