🔮 Metamaterial Cloaking Lab
Bend light and create invisibility! Design metamaterial cloaks that guide electromagnetic waves around objects. Control negative refractive index materials and understand the real physics behind invisibility. From Harry Potter magic to military stealth - it's all here!
🤔 What Is Metamaterial Cloaking?
Think of bending light around an object like water flowing around a rock in a stream — metamaterials are engineered structures that guide electromagnetic waves around objects, making them effectively invisible. They achieve optical properties impossible in any natural material.
Why does this matter? Duke University demonstrated the first microwave invisibility cloak in 2006. Metamaterials have negative refractive indices impossible in nature. In this simulator, design metamaterial lattices, adjust unit cell geometry, and watch electromagnetic waves bend around cloaked objects.