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November 17, 2015

Ultra-thin, tunable, broadband microwave absorber may advance radar cloaking
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 17, 2015
Microwave absorbers are a kind of material that can effectively absorb incident microwave energy to make objects invisible to radar; therefore they are commonly used in aircraft cloaking and warship stealth. Recently, as radar detection devices have been improved to detect the near-meter microwave length regime, scientists are working on high-performance absorbers that can cloak objects in the equivalent ultra-high frequency regime (from 300 megahertz to two gigahertz). However, conventiona ... read more

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Australia reveals shortlist for first nuclear waste dump

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