{"id":222990,"date":"2025-10-07T03:23:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/stretchable-waveguides-maintain-stable-transmission-even-when-bent-or-twisted"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:23:38","slug":"stretchable-waveguides-maintain-stable-transmission-even-when-bent-or-twisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/stretchable-waveguides-maintain-stable-transmission-even-when-bent-or-twisted","title":{"rendered":"Stretchable waveguides maintain stable transmission even when bent or twisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stretchable-waveguides-maintain-stable-transmission-even-when-bent-or-twisted.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have designed and demonstrated stretchable waveguides that maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted or stretched. These plasmonic waveguides could make it possible to seamlessly embed advanced sensing, communication and health monitoring functions into everyday wearable materials.<\/p>\n<p>Plasmonic waveguides are tiny structures that guide light by coupling it with electrons on a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metal+surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal surface<\/a>. The new flexible waveguides transmit what are known as spoof surface plasmon polaritons, which are formed with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/longer+wavelengths\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">longer wavelengths <\/a>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radio+frequencies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radio frequencies<\/a> in this case\u2014rather than the conventional infrared or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visible+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visible light<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough our work is still at the research stage, it highlights the exciting possibility of merging advanced electromagnetic technologies with soft, stretchable materials,\u201d said research team leader Zuojia Wang from Zhejiang University. \u201cThis brings us closer to a future where advanced health care and connectivity are integrated into what we wear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have designed and demonstrated stretchable waveguides that maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted or stretched. These plasmonic waveguides could make it possible to seamlessly embed advanced sensing, communication and health monitoring functions into everyday wearable materials. Plasmonic waveguides are tiny structures that guide light by coupling it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222990","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}