Acoustic Superlens Makes Waves

6/26/2012 By Kathryn L. Heine

A novel acoustic superlens developed by Assistant Professor Nicholas Fang was featured this April in MIT Technology Review's physics arXiv. Made of metamaterial, the acoustic superlens focuses sound waves in much the same way that an optical superlens focuses light waves. The technology, if improved, could lead to an acoustic cloaking device that might hide submarines and other objects from sonar.

Written by By Kathryn L. Heine

A novel acoustic superlens developed by Assistant Professor Nicholas Fang was featured this April in MIT Technology Review's physics arXiv. Made of metamaterial, the acoustic superlens focuses sound waves in much the same way that an optical superlens focuses light waves. The technology, if improved, could lead to an acoustic cloaking device that might hide submarines and other objects from sonar.


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This story was published June 26, 2012.