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If you ever get a chance to go to Leiden, take it. It is a beautiful little city that hides some high-power university research. It also boasts the world’s first …read more Continue reading Where the Rubber Meets the Computer
Although solar-powered devices are now fairly common, Swedish scientists have created something a little different. They’ve built tiny “metavehicles” that are mechanically propelled and guided via waves of light.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: L… Continue reading Microscopic metavehicles are pushed and steered by light
Though you can make objects smarter by adding sensors to them, a team of MIT engineers has managed to 3D print metamaterial structures with electrodes directly integrated into them to allow objects to sense user interaction.Continue ReadingCategory: Ma… Continue reading Engineers 3D print force-sensing metamaterial structures
Optical microscopes depend on light, of course, but they are also limited by that same light. Typically, anything under 200 nanometers just blurs together because of the wavelength of the …read more Continue reading Optical Microscope Resolves Down to 40 Nanometers
Most conventional light microscopes have a resolution of 200 nanometers – this means that imaged objects which are any closer to one another won’t be seen as separate items. A new high-tech microscope slide, however, boosts that figure to 40 nanometers… Continue reading “Light-shrinking” slide boosts the resolution of existing microscopes
Ultra wide-angle fisheye lenses are typically thick, bulbous contraptions, that can’t easily be incorporated into devices such as smartphones. That could be about to change, though, as engineers have now created one that’s completely flat.Continue Read… Continue reading High-tech material used to create a thin, flat fisheye lens
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are not exactly new technology, but their use over time has evolved from rather dim replacements of incandescent signal lights in control panels to today’s home lighting. Although LEDs have the reputation of being power-efficient, there is still a lot of efficiency to be gained.
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Continue reading Metasurface Design Methods Can Make LED Light Act More Like Lasers
A recent French study indicates that the ancient Romans may have figured out how to deal with earthquakes by simply deflecting the energy of the waves using structures that resemble metamaterials. These are materials which can manipulate waves (electromagnetic or otherwise) in ways which are normally deemed impossible, such as …read more
Continue reading Deflecting Earthquakes The Way Ancient Romans Did It
Nature delivers on the materials science. Continue reading Feeding Graphene to Silkworms Yields Supersilk