Using a material called a photonic crystal, researchers have designed a mirror that is, in a certain sense, perfect — there is in principle no light transmitted through it nor absorbed by it. See Letter p.188
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Stone, A. Trapping the light fantastic. Nature 499, 159–160 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/499159a
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