{"id":33,"date":"2006-01-31T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T17:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-02-27T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T20:18:10","slug":"superlens-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/31\/superlens-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon researchers make big advance on road to &#8216;superlens&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>&quot;A functional superlens would be a major breakthrough in optics and was first envisioned five years ago. The idea is to use exotic types of materials, proposed in the late 1960s, to create &#8216;negative&#8217; refraction of light, which literally means steering it in the opposite direction of that found in the natural world. The first materials that could do this were created a few years ago and the field is one of significant scientific interest, but many obstacles remain&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceblog.com\/cms\/oregon_researchers_make_big_advance_on_road_to_superlens_9630\">Read article at scienceblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;A functional superlens would be a major breakthrough in optics and was first envisioned five years ago. The idea is to use exotic types of materials, proposed in the late 1960s, to create &#8216;negative&#8217; refraction of light, which literally means steering it in the opposite direction of that found in the natural world. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1209,1276,1471,1678],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-geeky","tag-negative-refraction","tag-optics","tag-refraction-index","tag-superlens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->