News | September 18, 2015 11:12 PM EDT
Can't believe your eyes? Scientists build tiny invisibility cloak - Los Angeles Times
Scientists might be a step â a teeny tiny step â closer to developing that Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak of your dreams. Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a thin metamaterial that can conform to irregularly shaped objects and render them invisible in certain wavelengths of light.
For now, this cloak is exceedingly small and covers only an object about 1,300 square microns. But the device, described in the journal Science, offers a proof of concept that could potentially be scaled up in the future.
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