Orateur
Prof.
Sylvain Lecler
(ICube, Strasbourg)
Description
The concept of negative refraction was coined first in 1966 with Veselago and more recently in
2000 with Pendry. A material with negative refraction would bend light the “wrong” way, but it does
not exist in nature. How can we produce metamaterials with such a property? After introducing
these concepts, the lecture will move on to experimental demonstrations and discuss possible
applications such as the “perfect lens” or the “invisibility cloak”.
