Researchers have built a metamaterial device that captures microwaves and turns them into electrical power. Metamaterials are made up of structures that are smaller than a given wavelength of electromagnetic radiation. When arranged in arrays, these structures can tune waves of that radiation in novel ways. Allen Hawkes and his colleagues at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, used an array of five metamaterial cells, made from split copper circuits, to harvest microwave energy.
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