A new technology called metamaterials gives engineers the ability to make waves of all kinds behave in unnatural ways. Researchers at Duke, where metamaterials were first fabricated, are applying this new thinking to all sorts of waves, from the electromagnetic waves that underlie all of our communications, to sound waves and more.
(Video by Wil Weldon, Julie Schoonmaker and Carson Mataxis.)
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Duke-developed “metamaterials” are carefully designed structures that control all sorts of energy waves in previously impossible ways. Our researchers are poised to make these devices a household name.
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