Physicist Sir John Pendry, known globally for his research into refractive indexes and creation of the first practical Harry Potter-like "invisibility cloak," will deliver the keynote address as part ...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending day two of “Pendry Fest”, a series of lectures at Imperial College given in honour of the physicist Sir John Pendry, who recently turned 65. Although making ...

There’s something that some of us want to believe — something weird and wondrous and, to be frank, scary. We envision a world in which the sort of invisibility cloaks, the kind that appear in Harry ...

The lecture hall at UC San Diego’s Price Center was full Wednesday with an audience eager to hear about devices that can bend light and sound waves to change what we can see and hear — and perhaps ...

A Russian engineer Victor Veselago had theorised a lens made out of material with a negative refractive index. In 1999, John Pendry checked whether such a lens could be perfect, expecting the usual ...

EDMOND -- Science has yet to invent an invisibility cloak similar to the ones that exist in popular culture, such as in the "Harry Potter" tales. If the power of invisibility is achieved, those who ...

The applications of metamaterials – structures that can generate negative refractive indices – have long been overshadowed by the prospect of an invisibility cloak. John Pendry from Imperial College ...

WASHINGTON -- Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the one Harry Potter inherited from his father. Researchers in England and the United States think they know how to do that. They are ...

John Pendry is a physicist at Imperial College London who laid the theoretical foundations for the invisibility cloak and superlenses capable of producing the sharpest ever images. He talks about the ...