{"id":206236,"date":"2025-02-12T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/atomic-arrays-enable-negative-refraction-bypassing-metamaterial-limitations"},"modified":"2025-02-12T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:07:39","slug":"atomic-arrays-enable-negative-refraction-bypassing-metamaterial-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/atomic-arrays-enable-negative-refraction-bypassing-metamaterial-limitations","title":{"rendered":"Atomic arrays enable negative refraction, bypassing metamaterial limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-arrays-enable-negative-refraction-bypassing-metamaterial-limitations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays\u2014without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long sought to control light in ways that appear to defy the laws of nature.<\/p>\n<p>Negative refraction\u2014a phenomenon where light bends in the opposite direction to its usual behavior\u2014has captivated researchers for its potential to revolutionize optics, enabling transformative technologies such as superlenses and cloaking devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays\u2014without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light in ways that appear to defy the laws of nature. Negative refraction\u2014a phenomenon where light bends in the opposite direction to its usual behavior\u2014has captivated researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}