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| November, 2007 |
Visions of the Future
Our lab has been featured as part of a BBC documentary called "Visions of the Future," hosted by Michio Kaku. The episode aired November 19 on BBC 4. Details about the series are here, and an article about the coming "Age of Mastery" can be found here.
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| October, 2007 |
 Cloaking featured as cover story in Sciences et Avenir
Our work on cloaking has been featured in a cover story in the French science journal Sciences et Avenir. The story is titled L'Homme Invisible (c'est possible). The story is written by journalist David Larousserie and can be viewed online here.
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| August 15, 2007 |
David Schurig joins NC State
David Schurig has left the Metamaterials Group at Duke and taken an Assistant Professor position in the Electrical Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. We are grateful for David's many important contributions to our group, notably the demonstration of a metamaterial cloak!
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| June 12, 2007 |
Metamaterials work featured in the Times
A description of metamaterials and the recent cloaking work appears in the story "Light Fantastic" by Kenneth Chang in the Science Times section of the New York Times. The story can be found online here, and a scanned version of the article is available here.
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| May 3, 2007 |
Cloaking in Portuguese...
Our web article on The Science Fact and Fiction of Cloaking has been translated to Portuguese for a Brazilian site devoted to science and technology news, called Inovacao Tecnologica. The translated article can be viewed here.
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| April 30, 2007 |
Dan Roberts Third in Undergraduate Research Poster Competition
Congratulations to Dan for an excellent poster on Designs and Simulations for Transformation Optics.
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| April 1, 2007 |
Cloaking Makes More Top Tens!
Our work on electromagnetic cloaking has shown up in a couple more Top Ten lists. LiveScience has selected cloaking as one of the weirdest science stories of 2006, and the top physics story by Science News.
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| March 26, 2007 |
Our lab featured in Nature
The March 22 issue of Nature (p354) has a news feature by Katharine Sanderson on the status of metamaterials, cloaking and perfect lenses. The results from our lab are discussed, including quotes from Professor Smith, Sir John Pendry, Nathan Myhrvold, George Eleftheriades and others.
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Bending Plasmons: Hybrid Modes
published in Optics Letters, 2007
Surface plasmons are coupled electronic/electromagnetic modes that be used to guide light. We show how long-range plasmons can be used to form 90-degree bends. |
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Negative Index With Electric Resonantors
published in Applied Physics Letters, 2007
Negative index metamaterials have usually been made using wires to obtain negative permittivity. However, other structures are also possible, such as electric resonators. |
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Tuning Metamaterials with Photodoping
published in Optics Express, 2007
The properties of metamaterials can be dynamically switched by a variety of means. Incorporating a semiconductor material into the metamaterial element allows modulation by photodoping. |
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