{"id":362,"date":"2008-12-05T15:38:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T22:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebreakthroughsatosu.wordpress.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-12-05T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T22:38:05","slug":"breakthrough-made-in-metamaterial-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/2008\/12\/05\/breakthrough-made-in-metamaterial-optics\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Made in Metamaterial Optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>These \u201cmetamaterials,\u201d which gain their properties from their structure rather than directly from their composition, have been seen as a key to a possible \u201csuper lens\u201d that would have an extraordinary level of resolution and be able to \u201csee\u201d things the size of a nanometer \u2013 a human hair is 100,000 nanometers wide.<\/p>\n<p>They could also be important in machine visions systems, electronics manufacturing, computers limited only by the speed of light, and a range of new communications concepts. A \u201ccloaking device\u201d to hide objects, although not exactly of the type made famous by Star Trek, is also a possibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/dept\/ncs\/newsarch\/2008\/Dec08\/metamaterial.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this significant breakthrough here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These \u201cmetamaterials,\u201d which gain their properties from their structure rather than directly from their composition, have been seen as a key to a possible \u201csuper lens\u201d that would have an extraordinary level of resolution and be able to \u201csee\u201d things the size of a nanometer \u2013 a human hair is 100,000 nanometers wide. They could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[904],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/breakthroughsinscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}