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Perfect lens has sharpest view.
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New Scientist . 4/3/2004, Vol. 182 Issue 2441, p18-18. 1/4p. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Every lens made has been limited by the wavelength of the light it focuses. Canadian engineers have made the first "perfect lens", which can focus features smaller than the wavelength of the light itself. John Pendry of Imperial College, London, suggested in 2000 that such a lens might be built using so-called left-handed materials, which refract light in the opposite direction to normal. Normally, these "evanescent" waves are too weak to make it through a regular lens. Left-handed materials have since been built, but no one was able to create a perfect lens from them.
- Subjects :
- *LENSES
*OPTICAL instruments
*OPTICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02624079
- Volume :
- 182
- Issue :
- 2441
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Scientist
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 12853318