John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

The applications of metamaterials – structures that can generate negative refractive indices – have long been overshadowed by the prospect of an invisibility cloak. John Pendry from Imperial College ...

How do you make an object invisible? Professor Sir John Pendry worked out that it involves guiding and bending light in precise ways by changing the structure of the material it is travelling through.

The lecture hall at UC San Diego’s Price Center was full Wednesday with an audience eager to hear about devices that can bend light and sound waves to change what we can see and hear — and perhaps ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The key to creating a Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak lies in manmade materials unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, researchers say. They're ...