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Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:02:22 -0500 (CDT)
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[1]the physics arXiv blog

   [2]How to turn a narrow slit into a large window

   Posted: 29 May 2008 12:34 AM CDT

   [3]Narrow slit 

   How do you turn a narrow slit into a large window? Fill it with a
   metamaterial that captures and transmits as much light as the bigger
   window. At least, that's what Xiaohe Zhang and colleagues at Shanghai
   Jiao Tong University in China tell us.

   Metamaterials are substances constructed in a way that gives them
   exotic bulk properties that aren't otherwise found in nature, such as
   the ability to manipulate electromagnetic radiation in unheard of
   ways. Much of the publicity about metamaterials has revolved around
   their potential ability to form invisibility cloaks that can hide an
   object from view. But less well known are a menagery of designs that
   do other strange things such as rotate the appearance of a cloaked
   object.

   Now Xiaohe Zhang and pals have weighed in with yet another design: a
   material "that can transmit the information outside a domain through a
   small slit, with the transmittance identical to the one of a big
   window". In other word, they've designed a small window with the same
   transparency as a larger one, albeit one that works in the microwave
   region of the spetrum

   But why on Earth would you want one of these? It's one of those things
   that has a useful smell about it but the team don't mention any
   applications their paper so I'm kinda stumped.

   Ref: [4]arxiv.org/abs/0805.3039: Transformation Media that Turn a
   Narrow Slit into a Large Window

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References

   1. http://arxivblog.com/
   2. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/arXivblog/~3/300329274/
   3. http://arxivblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/narrow-slit.jpg
   4. http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3039
   5. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/arXivblog?a=jbsRJE
   6. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=ptipmH
   7. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=gkoltH
   8. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=VLBymh
   9. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=5eQycH
  10. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=llpAGh
  11. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=JJo80H
  12. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=S2sIth
  13. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/arXivblog?a=CHtbAH
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