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Metamaterials

A cat's eye for all directions

Nature Materials volume 8, pages 613–614 (2009)Cite this article

Metamaterials have seen many exciting applications. A design that is able to circumvent singularities in refractive index now allows a broad range of new applications, including an omnidirectional retroreflector.

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  1. Mark R. Dennis is in the H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK. mark.dennis@bristol.ac.uk,

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