First proposed over thirty years ago, negative refractive index materials bend light in the opposite direction to ordinary materials. However, they were not demonstrated experimentally until 2000.

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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new dark-field imaging technique that does not require specialized microscope ...