Major press for “On-chip zero-index metamaterials”
November 14, 2015
On-chip zero-index metamaterials, which was featured on the cover of the November issue of Nature Photonics, has received a tremendous amount of press and international attention. Below is a selected list of highlights:
- To Infinity and Beyond (Harvard SEAS press release — one of Harvard’s most viewed stories ever, with more than 27,000 unique page views.)
- To infinity and beyond: Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material (Phys.org)
- Zero-Index Metamaterials Open New Possibilities for Optical Chips (IEEE Spectrum)
- How the tiniest light could supercharge computers (The Boston Globe)
- To infinity and beyond: Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material (NSF)
- Harvard creates a material that lets light go ‘infinitely fast’ (Engadget)
- Scientists Make Light Travel Infinitely Fast (Gizmodo)
- “Squeezed light” could increase the computing power a million times (Wired Germany)
- the front pages of Reddit Science, Reddit Technology and Reddit Futurology
- New Metamaterial Transmits Light With No Energy Loss (IFL Science)
- New Gold-Plated Silicon Array Can Cleverly Control Light (PBS Nova Next)
- Scientists can now “squeeze” light, a breakthrough that could make computers millions of times faster (Quartz)
- Light travels “infinitely fast” on new zero-index -chip material (ScienceAlert)
- Harvard scientists invent chip that squeezes light to bring super-fast quantum computers closer (International Business Times)
- Computing at the Speed of Light (The Daily Beast)
- New metamaterial enables refractive index of zero (Optics.org)
- Other links provided by Nature metrics