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Smith Lab Featured on NOVA

Saturday - 5 February

Professor Smith and the metamaterials lab will be featured on the upcoming NOVA program "Making Stuff," premiering February 9, 2011 on PBS. The episode, "Making Stuff Smarter," is hosted by New York Times technology reporter David Pogue (pictured) and explores a new generation of ingeneious materials. Featured among those materials: The Duke metamaterial "invisibility cloak." link.

Smith WTN Finalist

5 December 2010

Professor Smith chosen as a finalist in World Technology Network award
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Duke Cloak and Wallace and Gromit

7 November 2010

Duke Invisibility Cloak featured on BBC series with Wallace and Gromit.
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Citation Laureate

24 September 2009

Smith selected by Thomson Reuters as Citation Laureate.
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Metamaterials

New opportunities with metamaterials

Metamaterials are artificial materials with unusual electromagnetic properties
Plasmonics

Guiding light with surface plasmons

Metals can offer surprising benefits for guiding and steering light
Composites

Multifunctional and smart composites

Advanced functionality can be integrated into load-bearing composites
Transform

Controlling light by bending space

Transformation optics is a new means of designing unique electromagnetic structures
Refract

Bending light backwards

Metamaterials can be constructed to have a negative index of refraction
Center

Duke Center for Metamaterials

Latest research results and activities from the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics