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Current Members
Professor David R. Smith
Autumn Wenner (Business Manager)
Jack J. Mock (Research Associate)
Prof. Aloyse Degiron (Asst. Research Prof.)
Dr. Ekaterina Poutrina (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Dr. Stephane Larouche (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Dr. Fabrizia Ghezzo (Resesarch Scientist)
Tong Ren (Graduate Student)
Ruopeng Liu (Graduate Student)
Vinh Nguyen (Graduate Student)
Soji Sajuyigbe (Graduate Student)
Nathan Kundtz (Graduate Student)
Jeffery Allen (Graduate Student)
Da Huang (Graduate Student)
Yu-Ju Tsai (MS Student)
Vedrana Novosel (Undergraduate)
Dan Roberts (Undergraduate) |
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)
Liheng Guo (Johns Hopkins)
Dr. Tom Driscoll (UCSD)
Dr. Jonah Gollub
Prof. Marco Rahm (TU Kaiserslautern)
Cameron Harrison (Procter and Gamble)
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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Autumn Wenner
Autumn Wenner is the Program Coordinator and Business Manager for the Duke Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, and assistant to the Director (Prof. Smith). Autumn coordinates activities, visits and events for the Center, and serves as the main contact for our industrial and other collaborators. |
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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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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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Prof. Aloyse Degiron
Aloyse Degiron is an Assistant Research Professor in ECE. 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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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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Dr. Ekaterina Poutrina
Ekaterina Poutrina is a postdoctoral researcher working on active and nonlinear metamaterials. Dr. Poutrina received her PhD from the University of Rochester. |
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Dr. Fabrizia Ghezzo
Fabrizia Ghezzo is a Research Scientist whose expertise in in the area of materials science, with an emphasis on mechanical and structural properties. Dr. Ghezzo spent three years in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCSD, where she worked on composite materials with embedded sensor networks. Dr. Ghezzo received her PhD in Mechanics of Materials and Technological Processes, in the Department of Mechanical, Nuclear, Aeronautical and Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy. |
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Dr. Stephane Larouche
Stephane Larouche is currently a post-doctoral fellow in our group, studying various aspects of linear and nonlinear metamaterials and plasmons. Dr. Larouche received his PhD in engineering physics from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, under the supervision of Ludvik Martinu. Dr. Larouche has developed advanced methods for the design of optical filters with arbitrary refractive indices. |
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Nathan Kundtz
Graduate Student | Jeffery Allen
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Da Huang
Graduate Student |
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Tong Ren
Graduate Student |
Ruopeng Liu
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Soji Sajuyigbe
Graduate Student |
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Vinh Nguyen
Graduate Student |
Vedrana Novosel
Undergraduate |
Yu-Ju Tsai
MS Student |
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Dan Roberts
Undergraduate |
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Dr. Marco Rahm
Marco Rahm is Junior Professor in the Physics Department of the Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, where he studies transformation optics and THz metamaterials. 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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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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