Duke Invisibility Cloak (VIDEO)

Duke University

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Three animations show how incident waves reflect away from a surface, with and without the metamaterial cloaking device in place. The cloak makes waves reflect as if the "bump" were not there.

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David R. Smith, Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering

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