For our modern, technologically-advanced society, in which technology has become the solution to a myriad of challenges, energy is critical not only for growth but also, more importantly, survival. The sun is an abundant and practically infinite source of energy, so researchers around the world are racing to create novel approaches to "harvest" clean energy from the sun or transfer that energy to other sources.
This week in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada report a novel design for electromagnetic energy harvesting based on the "full absorption concept."
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Metamaterial electromagnetic energy harvester with near unity efficiency. Applied Physics Letters, April 14, 2015; DOI: 10.1063/1.4916232
Novel design harvests energy from electromagnetic waves - Could power various future devices
