Metamaterials may enable invisibility cloaks, thinner lenses and smarter wireless networks

August 31, 2026 · 2:20 pm 1 sources

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• Metamaterials may enable invisibility cloaks, thinner lenses and smarter wireless networks
  Phys.org · August 31, 2026 14:20
  Who has not dreamed of an invisibility cloak like the one used by Harry Potter? It sounds like magic, but it could become reality with the help of so-called metamaterials. In the summer of 2026, some of the world's leading researchers in the field gathered in Umeå for a Nobel Symposium on…