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Near-Perfect 'Black'
New metamaterial can absorb pretty much every light particle it encounters

June 17, 2008


Assistant Professor Willie J. Padilla, researcher Nathan Landy and colleagues from Duke University have designed and tested a metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the light that strikes it, they report in the current edition of Physical Review Letters (Phys. Rev. Lett.100, 207402 (2008)) | BC News Release>> | Nature News .

 

 

 


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