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May 21 2009, Bharat

Researchers from the Purdue University have hopped a stride forward in the invisibility cloak endeavor by developing more feasible applications in transformation optics, this one based on a much simpler tapered optical waveguide. A more practical...

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Jie Yao, right, co-author of a science paper about new materials that can bend light backwards, gives a brief demonstration as co-authors Guy Bartal, left, Jason Valentine, center, look on during a news conference in a laboratory at the University of...