July Lectures in Physics: Metamaterials: Cloaks of invisibility fact or fiction?

Public Lecture

Friday 25 July 2008 @ 08:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (bldg 134), Parkville

Until recently it was thought that all transparent materials bent light the same way. But a new class of metamaterials have been discovered that bend light in the opposite way to all previous materials. They have the previously considered impossible property of a negative index and promise extraordinary new capabilities including super sharp lenses, biosensors, quantum information processing devices and perhaps even cloaks that render objects invisible.

LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Speaker: Associate Professor Ann Roberts (School of Physics, University of Melb
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Cilla Gloger
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