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Acoustic lenses to shout about

Nature Materials volume 8, pages 928–929 (2009)Cite this article

An acoustic hyperlens that is able to magnify and image objects much smaller than the probing wavelength promises new applications in sonar imaging.

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Figure 1: The acoustic hyperlens.

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  1. Ping Sheng is in the Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. sheng@ust.hk,

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