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Engineers use cloak to hide light detector

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For the first time engineers have used “plasmonic cloaking” to create a device that can see without being seen.

“It seems counterintuitive,” says senior author Mark Brongersma, an associate professor of engineering at Stanford University, “but you can cover a semiconductor with metal—even one as reflective as gold—and still have the light get through to the silicon."

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Photo credit: Stanford Nanocharacterization Lab

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