On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:14:28 +0000, Andrew Eremin wrote:

>David Littlewood wrote:
>>
>Thought this might be of interest to people here (well, David and Brian
>at least):
>
>"A lens less ordinary" Nature p119 - "In the lab of David Smith, a
>physicist
>at the University of California, San Diego, a strange array of metal
>wires
>and loops has been pieced together. In April 2001, Smith and his team
>showed
>that this construction, which they refer to as 'metamaterial', has a
>peculiar property: it bends electromagnetic waves in the opposite
>direction
>to normal materials... Some in the industry believe that it could lead
>to
>what John Pendry, a physicist at Imperial College in London, has dubbed
>'the
>perfect lens' - a device that can produce flawless visual images."
>
>http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v420/n6912/full/420119a_fs.html

Thanks. Neat! (Well, almost....................;-)