metamaterial
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- noun
- /ˌmɛtəˈmætɪrəl/
- Specialized
- The path of light through vacuum around black holes is illustrated quite faithfully with metamaterials.
- metamaterial cloaking
- optical metamaterial
- metamaterials or plasmonic
Examples
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Kymeta's technology uses something called "metamaterials," artificial materials that can manipulate electromagnetic radiation that can steer a radio signal toward a satellite, thereby creating a continuous broadband link.
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The class of materials needed is not to be found in nature and is known as metamaterials.
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However, the one thing missing from their paper is a working example of a metamaterial with negative compressibility.
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Clearly, a metamaterial with negative compressibility would have some interesting applications.
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Elements, metamaterial suicide organisms, and rivers; experiences, however.
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How to Make a Metamaterial that Expands Under Pressure and Contracts in Tension
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BUT large-scale metamaterial applications need to be built and proved workable in real life.
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"As groundbreaking as it is, the satellite antenna technology behind Kymeta only scratches the surface of what metamaterials can do."
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Insulating metamaterials wound counterclockwise in the shunt cabling.
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Researchers have developed a new metamaterial that can improve the efficiency of solar panels.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Metamaterial comes from the Greek part meta- meaning 'beyond' or 'change' and the familiar word material meaning a substance. So a metamaterial is a substance made to have properties 'beyond' those of natural materials.