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December 20, 2013

Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloaking Device
Austin TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2013
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have proposed the first design of a cloaking device that uses an external source of energy to significantly broaden its bandwidth of operation. Andrea Alu, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering, and his team have proposed a design for an active cloak that draws energy from a battery, allowing objects to become undetectable to radio sensors over a greater range of frequencie ... read more

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