Convocation Newsletter, Summer 2018

Photo: Marilyn Chung, courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Photo: Roy Kaltschmidt, courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory e breakthrough, “the invisibility cloak”, was listed in TIME Magazine’s 2008 “Top Ten Scienti c Discoveries of the Year”: “Scientists at UC Berkeley have taken a major step toward making Harry Potter's disguise of choice a reality. ey've engineered two new materials — one using a shnet of metal layers, the other using tiny silver wires — that neither absorb nor re ect light, causing it instead to bend backward. e principle at work is refraction, which is what makes a straw appear bent in a glass of water.” TIME Magazine (2008)