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Nature Photonics 1, 207 - 208 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.38

Optical metamaterials: Invisibility cup

Ulf Leonhardt1

  1. Ulf Leonhardt is in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9SS, UK.
    e-mail: ulf@st-and.ac.uk


Cloaking devices for visible light come a step closer to reality by combining the modern form of a Roman technology with ideas from ancient Greece.

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