http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:32:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/05/metamaterials_acoustic_imaging/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/05/metamaterials_acoustic_imaging/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:22:07 +0000 Steve McConnell http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1169 New "metamaterials" can overcome some of the limitations of microscopes and imagers, including ultrasound imagers. Researchers in the Nano-scale Science & Engineering Center have come up with a metamaterial to improve the picture quality of ultrasound by a factor of 50. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/05/metamaterials_acoustic_imaging/feed/ 0