Researchers are pioneering the development of metamaterials, whose properties are not dictated by molecular composition but by their structural geometry. This innovation is made possible…
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Revolutionizing Physics With a Game-Changing Topological Approach
A new experimental method developed by researchers enables the identification of topological properties in materials without relying on mathematical models, simplifying research and expanding the…
$557,000 Boost – Next-Generation Spinal Fusion Goes “Meta”
Amir Alavi is leading a groundbreaking project at the University of Pittsburgh to develop “metamaterial” orthopedic implants for spinal treatment, funded by a $557,000 NIH…
Unlocking the Secrets of Mechanical Memory in Metamaterials
A 3D-printed Möbius strip (left) and odd-numbered metaring (right). These are both non-orientable objects that will necessarily have a point along the ring that does…
Unlocking Futuristic Materials: The Laser Key to Advanced Metamaterial Structures
MIT engineers have developed a new laser-based method, LIRAS, to test the dynamic properties of metamaterials without causing damage. This technique, involving the use of…
Metamaterial Magic: New MIT Method Simplifies the Construction Process for Complex Materials
Researchers from MIT and the Institute of Science and Technology Austria have created a technique to include many different building blocks of cellular metamaterials into…
Time Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves Demonstrated in a Groundbreaking Experiment
Scientists have conducted an experiment that demonstrates the time reflection of electromagnetic waves, which has potential implications for wireless communications and optical computing. The discovery…
Resonant Metasurfaces Offer Exiciting New Possibilities for Quantum Research
Pump photons pass through a resonant metasurface and produce entangled photon pairs at different wavelengths. Credit: Santiago-Cruz et al., Science 377:6609, 991-995 (2022)) Scientists have…
Teaching Physics to AI Can Allow It To Make New Discoveries All on Its Own
Duke University researchers have discovered that machine learning algorithms can gain new degrees of transparency and insight into the properties of materials after teaching them…
Real Telekinesis: Chinese Scientists Advance Toward Moving Things With Our Thoughts
A schematic diagram shows that people use brainwave control to manipulate electromagnetic waves, which can be extended in some illustrative scenarios, such as attention monitoring,…
Mobile Communications Beyond 5G With New “Beam-Steering” Technology
The beam-steering antenna technology has been developed to increase the efficiency of fixed base station antenna at 5G (mmWave) and 6G, and can also be…
Custom Copper “Headphones” Boost Atomic Radio Reception 100x
Copper “headphones” boost the sensitivity of NIST’s atomic radio receiver, which is composed of a gas of cesium atoms prepared in a special state inside…
Intelligent AI-Empowered Metasurface Could Revolutionize Our Lives
The intelligent metasurface, AI-empowered artificial material, is a smart platform enabling various functions such as data mining, communication, energy harvest, and sensing by directly processing…
In Einstein’s Footsteps and Beyond: New Insights Into the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
An illustration of a near-zero index metamaterial shows that when light travels through, it moves in a constant phase. Credit: Second Bay Studios/Harvard SEAS Zero-index…
Harvesting Energy From the Air: Metasurface-Based Antenna Turns Ambient Radio Waves Into Electric Power
Technology could make it possible to use radio emissions from cell phone networks to wirelessly power sensors and LEDs. Researchers have developed a new metasurface-based…
Surprising New Material Invented That Can Absorb and Release Massive Amounts of Energy
The elastic material with embedded magnets whose poles are color-coded red and blue. Orienting the magnets in different directions changes the metamaterial’s response. Credit: Courtesy…
Simple Silicon Coating Solves Long-Standing Optical Challenge for Powerful, Ultrafast Laser Pulses
New approach expands the application of powerful, ultrafast laser pulses. Quick bursts of laser light, lasting less than a trillionth of a second, are used…
“Invisibility Cloaks” May Soon Be Real: Creating Invisibility With Superconducting Materials
H z component diagram when the point source is placed at r = R1 (a) in vacuum and (b) a-MoO3 invisibility concentrator and r =…
Newly Proven Physics: Smuggling Light Through Opaque Materials
A metasurface made of arsenic trisulfide nanowires (yellow) transmit an incoming near-infrared frequency (red) as well as its third harmonic ultraviolet frequency (violet), which would…
Physicists Discover a Remarkable New Type of Sound Wave
Sound vortex generation enabled by the spin-orbit interaction in real space. Credit: Wang, S., Zhang, G., Wang, X. et al. / DOI number: 10.1038/s41467-021-26375-9 Can…