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Cosmic Queries – The Science of Invisibility with Greg Gbur

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The Metamaterial Revolution

Metamaterials, cloaking devices and invisibility were part of what they called a metamaterial revolution. The idea that if you mess around with the structure of materials on the scale of a wavelength, you can suddenly get all sorts of optical behaviors. They kind of the traditional invisibility cloak.

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