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"Metamaterials", artificial materials, seem to have great potential to create brand new and unprecedented applications for our future life. The electro-magnetic properties of Metamaterials could be artificially controlled by using metal nano-structures, so that refractive index could be changed or controlled. This suggest that we may be able directly to see virtual view, such as something beautiful flowers behind the screen of obstacle, or virtually to create a transparent person who might wear clauses made by Metamaterials.


7/21/09
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