Sir John Pendry’s lecture showed how engineered materials make sci-fi real, from invisibility cloaks to microscopes revealing ...

How metamaterials bend the paths of electromagnetic radiation (i.e. refraction) drives their peculiar applications. For example, a metamaterial invisibility cloak would bend the paths of light waves ...

Metamaterials are designed to have unique ... Examples include super-lenses to view objects at the molecular scale; ...

Based on the linear transformation optics and the constitution theory of omnidirectionally matched transparent metamaterials ... omnidirectional invisibility cloak capable of concealing large ...

During a visit to, John Pendry said that scientists lack the specific materials they need to design a way to routinely make ...

Kyoto Prize winners came to San Diego for this year’s symposium. Kyoto Laureate John Pendry talked about the theory of ...

It suggests that the invisibility cloaks that have captured much of the general interest in the field of optical metamaterials are just one manifestation of a more general topic, which the ...

Specific topics include sub-wavelength waveguiding and focusing, super-resolution imaging and nano-lithography beyond the diffraction limit of the light, negative refraction, and invisibility cloaking ...

We envision a world in which the sort of invisibility cloaks, the kind that appear in Harry Potter books and movies, could soon be reality. We’d be able to disappear just like that. A number of ...