Building the perfect lens with metamaterials

In principle a "perfect lens" could be created that opens up a brave new world of scientific investigation, particularly in nanotechnology and the biosciences.
The key requirement of these instruments is to devise a cunning way of getting around the diffraction limit, which restricts the resolution of images produced with optical light.
This film takes you to Imperial College London to investigate one promising route to a perfect lens that uses artificial structures known as metamaterials.
This film is one of a three-part series exploring some of the most promising technologies that are emerging from physics research.
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[@higgsboson3415]

this is great could you maybe do a video on muons and that part of physics, but well done you have a very loyal subscriber

[@jasonneu81]

The Institute of Physics How is it possible that such amazing meta materials use nano technology to make people and entire objects completely invisible but there's still toilets where I can't take a dump without murky water splashing onto my butt cheeks ._.

[@skroot7975]

I have a solution for that problem. A small piece of paper is all that is needed to reduce the butt cheek water splash when shitting. Just take the paper piece and put it on the surface of the water. Voilá!

[@jasonneu81]

Knurte Farblekund Yes this revolutionary technology indeed does reduce the butt splash but it does not eliminate it :(

[@skroot7975]

***** Maybe some kind of persistent gel could be developed for the surface water!

[@jasonneu81]

Knurte Farblekund Yes, a nano-coating treatment of the water surface, ingenious :D

[@andreibudaes3966]

***** :)))))))))))) best comment ever

[@BboyKeny]

So.... did it become a reality yet?

[@NicholasWingComposer]

Also, is it possible that meta-surface designed custom lenses could potentially enable some form of standoff distance microscopy and chemical analysis?

[@law73737]

What are these metamaterial lens made of? And can these metamaterials be found in things from our daily lives?

[@kentvandervelden]

Interesting

[@overtonecz]

Interesting! But why don't they (the scientists) use the "UV-heterodyne microscope" (invented and used by Rife in year 1933) to *look* on those nanostructures ???!!! :O

[@cookycamy101]

+Filip Rydlo those scopes cannot see nano-meter sized structures.

[@overtonecz]

+CAM COZ yeah, but they *could* (only one selected molecule type at one time though). Google the Ultraviolet Heterodyne Microscope. ;)

[@radoomiron93]

There are other better techniques to map a molecule if you are going to interfere with it (i.e. tunelling microscopy). The idea is not to expose the analysed nanostructure to high intensity radiation. That's where the "perfect lens" will be great.

[@cujoemblakka1041]

We are waiting on those " alien lens ", that we may see things at current frequencies, and others that we are not capable of seeing currently. There is a guy that use a double microscopes to see images of things that we are not capable of seeing at different frequency wave lenghts, it would be interesting to see a collaboration, with you guys to use your discoveries in addition with the use of graphene to make something truely amazing. Then coopting it with something like the google glass, to take it to another level.

[@av733]

Interesting, but the application of a negative refractive index was not explained.

[@liqi9479]

optical cloaking,

[@rock3tcatU233]

I've never met a material which acts like that.

[@aveexcaliburfx9022]

dr angela huhu cute

[@MelindaGreen]

Why does one speaker need to wear safety goggles and a lab coat to talk to the camera when the others do not? Seems he doesn't need gloves though.

[@skepticmoderate5790]

Seems he was in the middle of lab work. He probably just didn't thing to take them off.

[@TLH_BobCat]

All talk. No images!

[@jonathonwerner5968]

Is this a way to explain cloaking, without say cloaking

[@1HourBule]

Pretty much since all it is saying light is lazy. Takes the easiest path of less density

[@Rebecca-1111]

Yes. Bending light.