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.

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.

Dan Roberts Third in Undergraduate Research Poster Competition
Congratulations to Dan for an excellent poster on Designs and Simulations for Transformation Optics.

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.

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.

Metamaterials in Technology Review
Metamaterials has been featured as one of the "10 Emerging Technologies" for 2007 by Technology Review (March/April issue). The article features an interview with Professor Smith. The article is online here, at the Technology Review website.

Two farewells...
We are sad to see Bryan Justice and Claudio Dellagiacoma leave. We are happy, though, that Bryan has accepted a Project Engineer position at SensorMetrix in San Diego, CA; and, Claudio has returned to the EPFL in Switzerland, after successfully defending his masters thesis at Duke on Characterization of Long Range Surface Plasmons. We congratulate both Bryan and Claudio on their achievements!

Our work featured on Star Trek Tech
On February 18 and 19, The History Channel aired a Modern Marvels episode describing the science behind the Star Trek television series. Our work on invisibility was featured in a segment about cloaking. Also featured was Rachael Brady's DiVE facility, in a segment on the 'holodeck'. The program was scheduled to air at 9 pm (EST) on Sunday (18-Feb-2007); 1 am (EST), 11 am (EST) on Monday (19-Feb-2007); and 3 am (EST) on Tuesday (20-Feb-2007).

Popular and Review Articles Page
We have launched a page with links to many popular and review articles about our research, including some of our own. This page will also contain links to articles written in languages other than English that feature our work, such as the story that appeared in the November issue of Muy Interesante. This page will continue to be updated.

Cloaking in Physics Today
The physics of electromagnetic cloaking is described in a news story in the current (February) issue of Physics Today. A photograph of the cloak also appears on the cover.

Gallery page added to website!
We have finally opened up a page of images and illustrations of our resesarch. The Gallery Page will be updated over the next few weeks to include more photographs that chronicle our present and prior research program. These images are free to be reprinted or used for educational purposes, or for news stories.

Cloaking chosen as one of the top stories of 2006...
Our work on cloaking has been cited as one of the "Top Ten" breakthroughs by the editors of Science Magazine; one of the top six physics stories by Discover Magazine; one of the top emerging technologies by PC Magazine; and one of the top stories of the year by La Recherche.

Scientific American 50
David Smith, David Schurig, John Pendry and Ulf Leonhardt have all been selected as one of the "Scientific American 50" for their work on electromagnetic cloaking. Full details are in the December issue of Scientific American.

Smith lab profiled in Discover Magazine
In the November 2006 issue of Discover Magazine, Josie Glausiusz describes our lab and interviews David Smith and David Schurig, in the article "How to build an invisibility cloak."

As seen on The Today Show...
The Duke invisibility experiment, with comments from David Smith, David Schurig and Steve Cummer, was covered on The Today Show by correspondent Michelle Kosinski.

Press coverage of our cloaking work
Our cloaking work was featured as the number one story on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann (October 19, 2006). On October 21, 2006, Dr. David Schurig was interviewed on Fox News Live.

An Experimental Demonstration of Cloaking?
The Duke team, along with Sir John Pendry (Imperial College) and Dr. Anthony Starr (SensorMetrix) have performed a confirmation of electromagnetic cloaking at microwave frequencies. See the press release and video description here. More links to press articles can be found here.

Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (PECS-VII)
The next in the series of PECS conferences will be held in Monterey, CA. We have created a preliminary web page with details here.

The Quest for the Superlens
A new review article on metamaterials by John Pendry and David Smith has just been published in Scientific American, July issue, page 60.

Controlling Electromagnetic Fields Published in Science
Our new paper, in collaboration with John Pendry, explores the possibilities of creating a cloak that would conceal objects from detection.

Bryan Justice First in Pratt Undergraduate Poster Competition
Bryan Justice was awarded first place for his research poster describing his work in mapping the electromagnetic fields of negative index metamaterials.

Prof. Smith Receives the Stansell Research Award for 2006
Prof. Smith received the Stansell Family Research Award, for contributions to metamaterials.

Prof. Smith and Team EXEL Receive Descartes Research Prize
Prof. Smith was part of a multinational team of researchers who were awarded the Descartes Research Prize for their contributions to novel electromagnetic metamaterials. Click for more info.