Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation rarefied material such as air, or transparent material, through which observations can be made. The interface is not a material body and can neither emit nor absorb. It is a mathematical surface belonging jointly to the two media that touch it. It is the site of refraction of radiation that penetrates it and of reflection of radiation that does not. As such it obeys the Helmholtz reciprocity principle. The opaque body is considered to have a material interior that absorbs all and scatters or transmits none of the radiation that reaches it through refraction at the interface. In this sense
Negative refraction propagation direction of the light, thus the sign of "n" must be chosen to match the physical situation. The principal symptom of negative refraction is just that – light rays are refracted on the "same" side of the normal on entering the material, as indicated in the diagram, and by a suitably general form of Snell's law. Negative refraction Negative refraction is the name for an electromagnetic phenomenon where light rays are refracted at an interface in the reverse sense to that normally expected. Such an effect can be obtained using a metamaterial which has been designed to achieve a