Meta in Greek means beyond, so the term metamaterial means to create something that doesn't exist in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

A metamaterial is a material that gains its properties from its structure rather than directly from its composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [India eNews] Reference

The light-bending material is made from a so-called metamaterial - an engineered, exotic substance with properties not seen in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff] Reference

The stuff called "metamaterial" is no bigger than a speck of dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2008] Reference

Meta in Greek means beyond, so the term metamaterial means to create something that doesn’t exist in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Step Towards an Invisibility Cloak | Impact Lab] Reference

"metamaterial," a structure not found in nature that has strange effects on electromagnetic energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

The metamaterial object is not a black hole it simply traps photons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Could a Black Hole Fit in Your Computer or In Your Pocket? | Universe Today] Reference

Next, the team plans to incorporate the new metamaterial into lasers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Semiconductor Structure Bends Light ‘Wrong’ Way | Impact Lab] Reference

Scientists have developed a metamaterial that reflects almost no light - making it very black indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's official: the new black is very, very black] Reference

Redirecting scattered light means none of it bounces off the metamaterial back into the eye of an observer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light-Bending Nanoparticles Could Lead To Superlenses, Invisibility Cloaks | Impact Lab] Reference

Now researchers have succeeded in manufacturing a stacked split-ring metamaterial for the optical wavelength range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speedlinking 12/24/07] Reference

Such a device would be made of metamaterial, a thicket of metal rings or other shapes that bends light in funny ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mathematicians Design Invisible Tunnel | Impact Lab] Reference

In other words, he had a metamaterial, a substance that gets its properties from its structure and not its composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light-Bending Nanoparticles Could Lead To Superlenses, Invisibility Cloaks | Impact Lab] Reference

Their latest experimental metamaterial, containing more than 6,000 unique elements, took just 20 minutes of computer calculations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behold the Appearance of the Invisibility Cloak] Reference

They arranged a million wires, each hundreds of times finer than a human hair, into a tiny mat of metamaterial measuring 20 microns square.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behold the Appearance of the Invisibility Cloak] Reference

Cascade laser patterned with a metamaterial collimator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Engineer - News] Reference

A metamaterial that works in the terahertz range is nothing new.    From Wordnik.com.  [HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines] Reference

Then as the silk changes, so does the metamaterial printed on the silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines] Reference

Light-bending metamaterial could lead to superlenses, invisibility cloaks.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This new metamaterial is the first acoustic hyperlens Podolskiy has heard of.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"The advantage of the metamaterial is you are doing it electronically," Padilla said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"The real novelty with this metamaterial is that it is completely biocompatible," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoWorld] Reference

We report a high through-put combinatorial approach to photonic metamaterial optimization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Big Future] Reference

When the new silk metamaterial was subjected to T-rays the scientists detected a resonance.    From Wordnik.com.  [HindustanTimes.com - Top HomePage-TopStories News Headlines] Reference

The metamaterial patterns are directly sculpted on the highly doped GaAs facet of the device.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Engineer - News] Reference

"The hyperlens is probably the most exciting and promising metamaterial application to date,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Transformation optics offers an unconventional strategy to the design of metamaterial devices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Big Future] Reference

The team focused on metamaterial silk composites that are resonant at the terahertz frequency.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

His team began with a metamaterial comprised of two layers of silver separated by insulating aluminium oxide.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

"We overcompensated", says Shalaev - the doped metamaterial emitted more visible light than was shone onto it.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

It then passes through a complementary metamaterial which cancels out the distortions to make the cup seem invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

RAYSPAN® is the world's only provider of metamaterial and advanced RF air interface solutions for wireless communications.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Tests showed that visible red light with a wavelength of 720 to 740 nanometres passes through the metamaterial without loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

A combinatorial approach to metamaterials discovery has been developed to test dozens of metamaterial combinations at one time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Big Future] Reference

Padilla said a solid-state metamaterial device is a critical step toward improved terahertz devices, such as cameras or scanners.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Research programmes centred on either theoretical or experimental metamaterial research or combination of both will be considered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

"What we've shown with this metamaterial is that it is now improved to the point where it could be used as a device," Padilla said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"The most important result of our work," he says is that "we have a negative-index metamaterial" that doesn't absorb too much light.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

"This is a true metamaterial device," Boston College Asst. Prof. of Physics Willie J. Padilla, one of the co-authors of the paper, said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Silk films are highly transparent at THz frequencies, so metamaterial silk composites display a strong resonant electromagnetic response.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference