New Metamaterial Means More Efficient Solar Cells 94
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 (Score:5, Funny)
...and frikkin sharks who can fire round corners.
I wonder... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, right. (Score:5, Funny)
I'll believe it when I don't see it.
Re:I wonder... (Score:1, Funny)
Cheer
Running so low on cheers that you can only give one out at a time now?
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