New Metamaterial Means More Efficient Solar Cells

ElectricSteve writes "Metamaterials are man-made substances designed to do some very weird things that natural materials don't. The path of a beam of light through a natural material like glass is predictable, but scientists from the California Institute of Technology have engineered an optical material that bends light in the wrong direction. This new negative-index metamaterial (NIM) could have several valuable uses including invisibility cloaking, superlensing (imaging nano-scale objects using visible light), and improved light collection in solar cells."

Oh noes

[Linker3000]

...and frikkin sharks who can fire round corners.

I wonder...

[Finallyjoined!!!]

If we'll finally get real X-Ray Specs now that would be a good use....

Yeah, right.

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I'll believe it when I don't see it.

Re:I wonder...

[Anonymous Coward]

Cheer

Running so low on cheers that you can only give one out at a time now?

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