News Archives – 2008

December 23, 2008: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Reflectionless sharp bends and corners in waveguides using epsilon-near-zero effects,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics.

December 19, 2008: the paper A. Alù, N. Engheta, “Cloaking and transparency for collections of particles with metamaterial and plasmonic covers,” Opt. Expr.15, 7578 (2007) has received the CST University Publication Award 2008.

December 1, 2008: one of the figures in A. Alù, and N. Engheta, Phys. Rev. B78, 195111 (2008) has been selected to appear in the Physical Review B Kaleidoscope.

November 26, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Theory and potentials of multi-layered plasmonic covers for multi-frequency cloaking,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Focus Issue on Cloaking and Transformation Optics, Vol. 10, 115036 (15 pages).

November 24, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, Phys. Rev. B 78, 195111 (2008) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 18, No. 21.

November 13, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “A Hertzian plasmonic nanodimer as an efficient optical nanoantenna,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, Vol. 78, No. 19, 195111 (6 pages).

November 13, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Engineered plasmonic nanoparticle with extreme parameters and giant anisotropy,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.

November 12, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking mechanism with antiphase plasmonic satellites,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, No. 20, 205109 (9 pages).

October 27, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Effects of size and frequency dispersion in plasmonic cloaking,” has been published in Physical Review E, Rapid Communications, Vol. 78, 045602(R).

October 20, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking mechanism with ‘antiphase’ plasmonic ‘satellites’,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

October 16, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Theory and potentials of multi-layered plasmonic covers for multi-frequency cloaking,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics, Special Issue on Cloaking.

October 7, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “A Hertzian plasmonic nanodimer as an efficient optical nanoantenna,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

October 2, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Effects of size and frequency dispersion in plasmonic cloaking,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E, Rapid Communications.

September 26, 2008: A. Alù has received the Metamaterials Reviewer Award 2008 for ‘outstanding contribution to the peer-review process’ by the journal Metamaterials.

September 23, 2008: the invited paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “On certain design criteria for nanoantennas in the visible,” , has been accepted for publication in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Special Issue on Functional Nanophotonics and Nanoelectromagnetics.

September 17, 2008: A. Alù has won the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics assigned by the University of Siena.

September 15, 2008: the invited paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dispersion characteristics of metamaterial cloaking structures,” has been published in Electromagnetics, Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 464-475.

August 19, 2008: the invited review paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic and metamaterial cloaking: physical mechanisms and potentials,” has been published in Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, Vol. 10, No. 9, 093002 (17 pages).

August 11, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Infrared and optical invisibility cloak with plasmonic implants based on scattering cancellation,” Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 075107 (7 pages).

August 11, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dynamical theory of artificial optical magnetism produced by rings of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 085112 (10 pages).

August 1, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Input impedance, nanocircuit loading, and radiation tuning of optical nanoantennas,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, No. 4, 043901, July 21, 2008, has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 18, No. 5.

July 31, 2008: the invited review paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic and metamaterial cloaking: physical mechanisms and potentials,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics.

July 24, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical tunneling through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic channels and sharp bends,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 035440 (6 pages).

July 23, 2008: the paper A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Transmission-line analysis of ε-near-zero (ENZ)-filled narrow channels,” has been published in Physical Review E, Vol. 78, 016604 (10 pages).

July 21, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Input impedance, nanocircuit loading, and radiation tuning of optical nanoantennas,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, No. 4, 043901.

July 17, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dynamical theory of artificial optical magnetism produced by rings of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

July 11, 2008: a preprint of the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “A Hertzian plasmonic nanodimer as an efficient optical nanoantenna,” has been posted on arxiv.July 3, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Infrared and optical invisibility cloak with plasmonic implants based on scattering cancellation,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

July 3, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dielectric sensing in ε-near-zero narrow waveguide channels,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 045102 (5 pages).

June 20, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical tunneling through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic channels and sharp bends,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

June 10, 2008: the paper A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Transmission-line analysis of ε-near-zero (ENZ)-filled narrow channels,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E.

June 4, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Input impedance, nanocircuit loading, and radiation tuning of optical nanoantennas,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

June 1, 2008: the paper F. Bilotti, A. Alù, and L. Vegni, “Design of miniaturized metamaterial patch antennas with µ-negative loading,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 1640-1647.

May 17, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Robustness in design and background variations in metamaterial/plasmonic cloaking,” has been published in Radio Science.

May 15, 2008: a preprint of the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dynamical theory of artificial optical magnetism produced by rings of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been posted on arxiv.

May 14, 2008: a preprint of the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical tunneling through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic channels and sharp bends,” has been posted on arxiv.

April 30, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical nanocircuit loads for tuning the scattering response of nanoantennas,” has been published in Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, pp. 307-310.

April 30, 2008: the News and Views article “Optical cloaking: A many-layered solution” from A. Jenkins, featuring our recent Phys. Rev. Lett.paper on multi-layered plasmonic cloaks has appeared in Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, p. 270.

April 30, 2008: the News and Views article “Plasmonics: Engineering optical nanoantennas” from Prof. M. L. Brongersma, Stanford University, featuring our recent Nat. Phot.paper on loaded optical nanoantennas has appeared in Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, pp. 270-272.

April 22, 2008: a preprint of the paper A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Transmission-line analysis of ε-near-zero (ENZ)-filled narrow channels,” has been posted in arxiv.

April 18, 2008: the paper A. Alù, M. Young, and N. Engheta, “Design of nanofilters for optical nanocircuits,” Physical Review B, Vol. 77, 144107 (12 pages), April 9, 2008, has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 17, No. 16.

March 21, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, J. Li, and N. Engheta, “Nanoinsulators and nanoconnectors for optical nanocircuits,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, 064305 (24 pages).

March 18, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Multifrequency optical invisibility cloak with layered plasmonic shells,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, 113901.