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 Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:00 am Post subject: Physicists Pursue the Perfect Lens by Bending Light the Wro |
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Following recent breakthroughs, researchers are laying the groundwork for a "perfect lens" that can resolve sub-wavelength features in real time, as well as a suite of other optical instruments long thought impossible. These devices sidestep old optical limits by bending rays of light the "wrong" way ? a phenomenon known as negative refraction. In addition to biological imaging, perfect lenses could be used for single molecule biosensing, nanofabrication, light harvesting and (in theory) perfectly efficient solar panels, among other possibilities.
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Source: Wired Top Stories
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