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Electromagnetic pathway

Flexible yet robust

Nature Materials volume 15, pages 494–495 (2016)Cite this article

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Researchers have experimentally demonstrated a new type of pathway for electromagnetic waves, which allows an easy reconfiguration into various shapes while significantly suppressing backscattering.

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Figure 1: Reconfigurable topological pathways for electromagnetic waves.

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  1. Bo Zhen and Marin Soljačić are at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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  2. Bo Zhen is also in the Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel,

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