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An invisibility cloak made of glass

JUL 22, 2010
Physics Today
Daily Mail : Elena Semouchkina of Michigan Technological University in Houghton and her colleagues have, paradoxically, built a prototype invisibility cloak out of glass. The cloak, or rather a piece of cloak, is composed of close-spaced rods of germanium-antimony-selenium, 5 microns in diameter and surrounded by air. A paper describing the concept appears in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
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