Physicists in the US and Germany have proposed a new type of material that could get around the absorption problems that have prevented the creation of practical “superlenses” for visible light. The material -- which has not yet been made -- uses “electromagnetically induced chirality” to be transparent to light while having a low enough density to be made practically (Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 073602).
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