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| March 13, 2009 |
Feature story in the Wall Street Journal
Our work is featured in a story published in the Science Journal of the Wall Street Journal. The story, "Behold the Appearance of the Invisibility Cloak," is by Robert Lee Hotz and can be found here.
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| March 10, 2009 |
Feature story in Discover Magazine
An extensive article regarding metamaterials, by Fred Hapgood, has been published in the April issue of Discover Magazine. "Metamaterial Revolution: The New Science of Making Anything Disappear," describes a brief history of metamaterials and includes discussion of our most recent work. See the article here.
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| February 11, 2009 |
NEW Jobs available in Smith group
We are seeking candidates for two research positions in Professor Smith's metamaterials group. Please view postings here.
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| January 19, 2009 |
Our cloaking research mentioned on The Tonight Show
The latest research on cloaking was mentioned in Jay Leno's monologue on The Tonight Show. You can see the clip here.
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| January 16, 2009 |
Cloaking on a Ground Plane
Our most recent experiment confirms that objects on a mirror--or ground plane--can be hidden from detection by a metamaterial 'cloak.' The latest work, based on a theoretical prediction by Li and Pendry, illustrates some of the progress that has been achieved over the last two years of research (published in Science, January 16, 2009).
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| January 16 , 2009 |
Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics (CMIP)
In April of 2008, CMIP was formed to gather together and promote all of the activities in metamaterials and plasmonics at Duke. Today, the CMIP website was officially launched! The web address is www.metamaterials.duke.edu.
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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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A Broadband Ground Plane Cloak
published in Science, 2009
Ruopeng Liu and colleagues demonstrate a new type of cloaking structure, which hides objects placed on the surface of a mirror or a "ground plane." |
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Transformation Optical Approach to Antenna Design
published in Optics Express, 2008
Nathan Kundtz and colleagues illustrate the use of transformation optics to design novel antenna structures. Transformation optics is a new design tool, used also to create invisibility cloaks. |
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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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