The History of Metamaterial Theory

The founder of Metamaterial theory is John Pendry and in the late 1990s, he was contacted by a company that was made in the right way. They said we made this great new paint and it's made out of carbon and it's really good at absorbing radar waves but we do not know why it does this. The only problem is they had no idea why it worked. So they brought in Pendry who was this condensed matter theorist who looked at it. He found that the carbon that they had fabricated was on this very small submicroscopic level, a bunch of tangled little threads of carbon that were all woven together and tangled up. It's suddenly at very different optical