Microscopy & Microtechniques
Latest microscopy technique could enable invisibility cloaks
Jan 25 2011
The technology holds promise for a range of optical applications, including carpet-like cloaks that bend light around an object, rendering it invisible.
However, the latest microscopy news to come from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's research into GRIN plasmonics focuses on the technology's ability to resolve DNA molecules at high power levels using visible light.
Both Eaton and Luneburg lenses have now successfully been created using GRIN plasmonics.
These allow light to be bent through 90 degrees or focused regardless of its direction of incidence respectively.
Xiang Zhang, research leader at the laboratory, says: "Our GRIN plasmonics technique provides a practical way for routing light at very small scales and producing efficient functional plasmonics devices."
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