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Professor David R. Smith
Jack J. Mock (Research Associate)
Dr. Aloyse Degiron (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Dr. Marco Rahm (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Jonah Gollub
(Graduate Student)
Tom Driscoll
(Graduate Student)
Tong Ren
(Graduate Student)
Ruopeng Liu (Graduate Student)
Vinh Nguyen (Graduate Student)
Soji Sajuyigbe (Graduate Student)
Liheng Guo (Undergraduate)
Vedrana Novosel (Undergraduate)
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Former Members
Dr. Anthony Starr (President, SensorMetrix)
Prof. David Schurig (North Carolina State)
Prof. Willie Padilla (Boston College)
Bryan Justice (SensorMetrix)
Pavel Kolinko (UCSD)
Patrick Rye (UCSD)
Visitors
Dr. Scott Norton (Oxonica)
Claudio Dellagiacoma (EPFL, Lausanne)
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Dr. David R. Smith
Since 2004, Dr. David R. Smith has held the position of Associate Professor and Augustine Scholar in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at Duke University. Dr. Smith is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Physics Department at the University of California,
San Diego (UCSD), and is a Visiting Professor in the Physics Department at Imperial College, London. Dr. Smith's research has been focused on
advanced electromagnetic materials and composites, including photonic crystals and metamaterials.
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In 2000, Dr. Smith and colleagues at UCSD
demonstrated the first metamaterial with a negative index-of-refraction. Dr. Smith was selected as a member of
The Electromagnetics Academy in 2001; was a co-recipient of the Descartes Research Prize awarded by the European Union in 2004;
received the Stansell Research Award from the Pratt School of Engineering in 2005; and was selected to be one of
Scientific American's “Top 50” researchers and policy makers in 2006. His work has twice been selected
as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of the year by Science Magazine (2003, 2006).
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Jack J. Mock
Jack Mock is Research Associate. Jack received his B.S. degree from the Physics Department at the University of California, San Diego.
Jack has been responsible for designing and building virtually all of the optical and microwave apparatus in the lab. He has had extensive
experience in the optical microscopy of plasmon resonant nanoparticles, and has performed extensive studies on the correlation of enhanced Raman
spectra with the physical properties of nanoparticles.
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Dr. Marco Rahm
Marco Rahm is a post-doctoral fellow. From 1995 to 2001 he studied physics at the the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. He
received his physics diploma in 2001 for studies in nonlinear optics and laser physics in the research group of Prof. Dr. Richard Wallenstein.
After the diploma, Marco was engaged in experimental, theoretical and numerical investigations of the fundamental properties of self- injection
seeded optical parametric generation in the research groups of Prof. Dr. Wallenstein and Prof. Dr. Rene Beigang.
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In 2006, he obtained his
doctorate in natural sciences (the German equivalent of PhD) from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. After a short appointment as
a post-doc in the research group of Prof. Beigang, where he was concerned with plasmonics in the THz frequency range, Marco joined the research
group of Prof. Dr. David Smith. Currently, his main research interests are dedicated to the development of optical devices by form-invariant
coordinate transformations of Maxwell’s equations and nonlinear and tunable metamaterials in the THz frequency range.
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Dr. Aloyse Degiron
Aloyse Degiron is a post doctoral fellow. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg,
France. His PhD advisor was Prof. Thomas Ebbessen at the Institut de Science et D'Ingenierie Supramoleculaires (ISIS). Dr. Degiron
performed a variety of experiments on the enhanced transmission of 'holey' films. He currently works on a variety of topics in metamaterials
and plasmonic research, including tunable metamaterials (via photodoping) and long-range plasmon propagation.
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Bryan Justice
Bryan Justice currently works as a research associate/technician in Professor Smith's group. Bryan received his undergraduate degree in
Electrical Engineering from Duke University in June, 2006. Starting as an undergraduate in the group, Bryan assisted in the development of the
microwave mapping chamber, and took all of the data for the recently reported cloaking sample. Bryan has recently accepted a position as
project engineer at SensorMetrix Corporation (San Diego).
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Jonah Gollub
Jonah is a graduate student enrolled in the Physics Department at the University of California, San Diego. He received his BS degree in Physics from Reed College in Oregon. Jonah is currently working on metamaterial projects in Professor Smith's laboratory at Duke University. Jonah studies the integration of artificially structured metamaterials and metamaterial transmission lines with intrinsically ferromagnetic materials.
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Tong Ren
Tong Ren is a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University. Her research focuses on the design and development of devices and applications using metamaterials. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Before joining the MetaGroup, Tong worked with Prof. Steven Cummer on remote sensing and the detection of ionospheric sporadic E layers. Tong grew up in Dalian, a beautiful coastal city in Northeastern China.
Visit Ton's personal website at
http://www.duke.edu/~tr8
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Ruopeng Liu
Ruopeng is a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University. Ruopeng received his BS in Chu Kechen Honors College at Zhejiang University, China. He conducted his undergraduate research from 2004 in the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves at Southeast University with Dr. Tie Jun Cui, and the Electromagnetics Academy at Zhejiang University, advised by Dr. Jin Au Kong. His research interests include effective medium theory and the design and application of artificially structured metamaterials.
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Liheng Guo
Li is an undergraduate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and a research associate in Professor Smith's group. He has been responsible for automating the data acquisition equipment used in the various microwave experiments.
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Vedrana Novosel
Vedrana is an undergraduate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and a research associate in Professor Smith's group. She assists in the optical spectroscopy of plasmon resonant particles. She has also taken the lead in developing and expanding the group website, and is currently hard at work developing a web page devoted to electromagnetic cloaking.
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Professor Willie J. Padilla
Willie Padilla is currently an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at Boston College. Willie began his career as a graduate student working with David Smith at UCSD on a variety of topics, including electromagnetic metamaterials. Willie co-authored the first paper on negative index metamaterials (now cited more than 900 times). Willie subsequently developed an interest in optical spectroscopy, and received his PhD in Physics from UCSD in the group of Dimitri Basov. Following this, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he performed the first experiments on active metamaterials.
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Dr. Anthony (Tony) F. Starr
Tony Starr is currently president of SensorMetrix Corporation (San Diego), a company he cofounded with David Smith.
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Dr. David Schurig
David Schurig is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Carolina State University.
He was the principal designer of the metamaterial invisibility
cloak, and is currently investigating other interesting devices using the transformation optics method and implementing them with metamaterials.
David received a BS in Engineering Physics from U.C. Berkeley, and then worked at Lawrence Berkeley Lab on laser ablation and
photoacoustic spectroscopy.
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At some point after receiving his BS from Berkeley, David became confused and enrolled in graduate school. After performing many
unpublished experiments,
David submitted a theoretical thesis on negative index media, the perfect lens and related metamaterial topics to his committee.
In exchange, U.C. San Diego granted him a PhD in physics in 2002. In the early part of the new millennium David also worked for the
California Space Institute, performing space mission feasibility studies, and for Tristan Technologies (named after the coldest,
continuously inhabited place on earth), designing and building, cryogenically cooled, SQUID-based instruments. David completed his post-doctoral
work with Professor David Smith at Duke University, from 2004-07, funded under a fellowship from the Intelligence Community.
David Schurig's web site
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Dr. Scott Norton
Scott Norton is a senior scientist at Oxonica, Inc. He completed his Ph.D. in Optical Science from the University of Rochester and has two years post doctoral experience in Immunology. He has 11 years of experience in the biotechnology industry in such diverse areas as cytometry, microscopy, spectroscopy, and biodiagnostic instrumentation and assay development. His current research interests include SERS-based diagnostics toward pathogen detection and cardiac marker quantitation; brand security and track & trace applications of SERS and Nanobarcodes particles; software algorithm development; and high-throughput imaging.
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Claudio Dellagiacoma
From Switzerland, Claudio has always had an interest in science and engineering. After high school (natural sciences) in Lucerne, he studied microengineering at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, specializing in optics to gain a more physical insight. As part of his masters studies, he is currently visiting the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University where he is engaged in developing simulation methods for plasmonic transmission lines and waveguides. In his spare time, Claudio enjoys mountain climbing, ski hiking and nature in general. Claudio is also an accomplished violinist!
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