{"id":19990,"date":"2008-06-03T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.74.50.173\/2008\/06\/new-metamaterial-perfect-absorber-of.html"},"modified":"2017-04-07T05:33:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:33:44","slug":"new-metamaterial-perfect-absorber-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2008\/06\/new-metamaterial-perfect-absorber-of.html","title":{"rendered":"New Metamaterial a \u201cPerfect\u201d Absorber of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"
A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke University has developed a highly-engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the The team designed and engineered a metamaterial that uses tiny geometric surface \u201cThree things can happen to light when it hits a material,\u201d says Boston College Physicist Willie J. Padilla. \u201cIt can be reflected, as in a mirror. It can be
light that strikes it \u2013 to a scientific standard of perfection \u2013 they report in Physical Review Letters.<\/a><\/p>\n
features to successfully capture the electric and magnetic properties of a microwave to the point of total absorption.<\/p>
transmitted, as with window glass. Or it can be absorbed and turned into heat. This metamaterial has been engineered to ensure that all light is neither reflected nor transmitted, but is turned completely into heat and absorbed. It shows we can design a metamaterial so that at a specific frequency it can absorb all of the photons that fall onto its surface.\u201d<\/p>\n