Plasmonic metamaterials: From microscopes to invisibility cloaks

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http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=19828.php

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A new class of artificial materials called metamaterials—which derive their properties from carefully engineered, nanostructured building blocks rather than from their chemical composition—may one day be used to create ultrapowerful microscopes, advanced sensors, improved solar cells, computers that use light instead of electronic signals to process information, and even an invisibility cloak.