{"id":445496,"date":"2010-03-19T00:59:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T04:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7126"},"modified":"2010-03-19T00:59:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T04:59:03","slug":"3d-invisibility-cloak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/445496","title":{"rendered":"3D invisibility cloak"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to blog about invisibility cloak tech<\/a> (seven months on the dot, to be exact), but here’s the latest from Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the second link:<\/p>\n

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Researchers at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology report they were able to cloak a tiny bump in a layer of gold, preventing its detection at nearly visible infrared frequencies.<\/p>\n

Their cloaking device also worked in three dimensions, while previously developed cloaks worked in two dimensions, lead researcher Tolga Ergin said.<\/p>\n

The cloak is a structure of crystals with air spaces in between, sort of like a woodpile, that bends light, hiding the bump in the gold later beneath, the researchers reported in Thursday’s online edition of the journal\u00a0Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In this case, the bump was tiny, a mere 0.00004 inch high and 0.0005 inch across (100 microns x 30 microns), so that a magnifying lens was needed to see it.<\/p>\n

“In principle, the cloak design is completely scalable; there is no limit to it,” Ergin said. But, he added, developing a cloak to hide something takes a long time, “so cloaking larger items with that technology is not really feasible.”<\/p>\n

“Other fabrication techniques, though, might lead to larger cloaks,” he added in an interview via e-mail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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