Ultrathin 'Invisibility Cloak' Can Match Any Background
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Jesse Emspak19 hrs ago
© Courtesy of Xiang Zhang group, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley 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 cloaking device to hide in plain sight, but the effect is far from perfect: The alien's attempt to conceal itself is thwarted by distortions of light bending around it. Now, researchers have built an ultrathin "invisibility cloak" that gets around this problem, by turning objects into perfect, flat mirrors.
I don't know about you but I want one of these.
LiveScience Jesse Emspak19 hrs ago
I don't know about you but I want one of these.