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Nature 455, 299-300 (18 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/455299a; Published online 17 September 2008
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Optics: Farewell to Flatland
Ortwin Hess1
Abstract
Metamaterials are the key to perfect lenses, 'invisibility' cloaks and slow and stored broadband light. A three-dimensional optical metamaterial with a negative refractive index has now been created.
Picture a straw in a glass of water. Looking at the glass from the side, the straw seems to break at the water surface and continue inside the liquid slightly shifted to one side and slightly wider than in the air.
- Ortwin Hess is at the Advanced Technology Institute and Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK.
Email: o.hess@surrey.ac.uk
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