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February 7, 2013

Seismic Invisibility Cloak Tested in France

MIT Technology Review, MIT Technology Review


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The ability to steer electromagnetic waves around regions of space has revolutionised optics and sparked a global interest in Harry Potter-style invisibility cloaks. But it isn’t only photons that are the target of these devices.

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TAGGED: metamaterials, waves, invisibility, earthquake

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