Extreme Light-Benders
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 13 Story 3 - 3/5/2011

The extreme light-bender

The metamaterial, which shows a refractive index of more than 30, was fabricated by placing many metallic I shapes very close to each other onto a hosting medium with a refractive index of only 1.8. Figure courtesy: Bumki Min.
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The extreme light-bender. The metamaterial, which shows a refractive index of more than 30, was fabricated by placing many metallic <i>I</i> shapes very close to each other onto a hosting medium with a refractive index of only 1.8.