Artificially structured metamaterials have enabled unprecedented flexibility in manipulating electromagnetic waves and producing new functionalities, including the cloak of invisibility based on ...

Invisibility cloak now a reality, scientists say. By Allison Barrie , Fox News. Published November 13, 2012 8:14am EST | Updated October 20, 2015 4:46pm EDT. Facebook; Twitter ...

Now, researchers have built an ultrathin "invisibility cloak" that gets around this problem, by turning objects into perfect, flat mirrors. Led by Xiang Zhang, director of materials science at ...

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 ...

Invisibility cloak with photonic crystals Date: August 31, 2016 Source: Michigan Technological University Summary: Almost as elusive as unicorns, finding practical materials for invisibility ...

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 ...

For example, there are invisibility cloaks for microwave, infrared, and optical frequencies; ground-plane or carpet cloaks for hiding objects on a flat plane; and cloaks (also called illusion ...

Messy metamaterials. The first invisibility cloak was created in 2006 by British scientist John Pendry. It consisted of a material that could bend microwaves, but not visible light, around a tiny, 2D ...

Two 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. Surprisingly ...