Researchers are now claiming that the metamaterials could be used to transform computing, data storage, and optical microscopy. The study of fabrication of transistors and the amount of data stuffed onto a DVD are hindered by the way light travels through materials.
The metamaterials can maneuver light in striking style thereby allowing enhanced electronic circuitry, microscopy, and data storage. The new devices could manipulate visible light in the green to ultraviolet range. Manipulating visible light could be employed effectively in optical microscopes and photolithography.
Researchers at the University of California coupled a conventional optical lens with a metamaterials based lens that was able to disclose the patterns that are otherwise impossible to reveal with ordinary microscope.
The devised lens is able to look into things lined up down the bottom of its U-shaped valley owing to its cylindrical shape. Now, they are planning to develop a spherical version that would allow them to see an entire surface at once.
Via: technologyreview
