'Negative refraction' opens avenue to new products and industries
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 12:02
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to make a low-cost material that might accomplish negative refraction of light and other radiation a goal first theorized in 1861 by a giant of science, Scottish physicist James Maxwell, that has still eluded wide practical use.