Microwave Cloaking Device Created

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Microwave Cloaking Device

Scientists at Duke University in North Carolina have just unveiled the worlds first real cloaking device. Right now the cloak only works with microwave light, but will actually distort the light around the object to be cloaked, that when the cloaking device is turned on the object would almost completely disappear. Ulf Leonhardt is a physicist at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and had the following to say about the project:

“It’s not perfect … If you could see in the microwave region of the spectrum, the copper ring would not quite disappear. You’d see perhaps a shadow and some slight distortion where the copper ring ought to be.”

The device makes use of “metamaterials”, created by the scientists on the nanometer scale, which exhibit peculiar electromagnetic properties not normally found in nature.

Originally found on: New Scientist Tech

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1 Sheldon Kotyk Oct 21st, 2006 at 2:43 pm

Umm, silly question but why would I want to “cloak” my microwave?

I’d like to be able to find it to warm up my leftover pizza.
2 James Oct 21st, 2006 at 4:56 pm

I think ultimately it will be used as a weight loss prevention tool. If you can’t find the microwave, you won’t cook up that pack of popcorn.
3 Sheldon Kotyk Nov 12th, 2006 at 11:05 pm

Pure genious. No, not you. The guy that invented popcorn.

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