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

A flexible metamaterial

The metallic I shapes, which give the metamaterial its high refractive index, are placed onto a polymer that also makes the material very flexible. Figure courtesy: Bumki Min.
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A flexible metamaterial. The metallic I shapes, which give the metamaterial its high refractive index, are placed onto a polymer that also makes the material very flexible.