News Archives – 2011
December 18, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Subwavelength Imaging Using Phase-Conjugating Nonlinear Nanoantenna Arrays,” has been published in Nano Letters, Vol. 11, No. 12, pp 5514–5518.
December 15, 2011: the paper Y. Sun, B. Edwards, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Realization of Optical Lumped Nanocircuit Elements at Infrared Wavelengths,” has been accepted for publication in Nature Materials.
December 6, 2011: the paper Y. Lee, A. Alù, and J. X. J. Zhang, “Efficient Apertureless Scanning Probes Using Patterned Plasmonic Surfaces,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 19, No. 27, pp. 25990–25999.
December 3, 2011: Andrè Esteva received the Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award in Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering Commencement Ceremony.
December 1, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta “Nonlocal Transformation Optics,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
December 1, 2011: the paper X. X. Liu, D. A. Powell, and A. Alù, “Correcting the Fabry-Perot Artifacts in Metamaterial Retrieval Procedures,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 23, 235106 (7 pages).
November 29, 2011: the paper P. C. Li, Y. Zhao, A. Alù, and E. T. Yu, “Experimental Realization and Modeling of a Subwavelength Frequency-Selective Plasmonic Metasurface,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 99, No. 22, 221106.
November 29, 2011: the invited paper P. Y. Chen, F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Suppressing the Electromagnetic Scattering with an Helical Mantle Cloak,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Special Cluster on Metamaterials.
November 28, 2011: the paper K. Q. Le, A. Abass, B. Maes, P. Bienstman, and A. Alù, “Comparing Plasmonic and Dielectric Gratings for Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Organic Solar Cells,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 20, No. 51, pp. A39-A50.
November 16, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Subwavelength Imaging Using Phase-Conjugating Nonlinear Nanoantenna Arrays,” has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters.
November 16, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Manipulating Light Polarization with Ultrathin Plasmonic Metasurfaces,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 20, 205428 (6 pages).
November 15, 2011: the paper X. X. Liu, D. A. Powell, and A. Alù, “Correcting the Fabry-Perot Artifacts in Metamaterial Retrieval Procedures,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
November 11, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, S. Guenneau, S. Enoch, and A. Alù, “Acoustic Scattering Cancellation via Ultrathin Pseudo-Surface,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 99, No. 19, 191913.
November 10, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Mantle Cloaking Using Thin Patterned Metasurfaces,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 20, 205110 (13 pages).
November 8, 2011: the paper P. C. Li, Y. Zhao, A. Alù, and E. T. Yu, “Experimental Realization and Modeling of a Subwavelength Frequency-Selective Plasmonic Metasurface,” has been accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters.
November 4, 2011: the paper K. Q. Le, A. Abass, B. Maes, P. Bienstman, and A. Alù, “Comparing Plasmonic and Dielectric Gratings for Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Organic Solar Cells,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
November 3, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Manipulating Light Polarization with Ultrathin Plasmonic Metasurfaces,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
October 24, 2011: the invited paper S. H. Mousavi, A. B. Khanikaev, B. Neuner III, D. Y. Fozdar, T. D. Corrigan, P. W. Kolb, H. D. Drew, R. J. Phaneuf, A. Alù, and G. Shvets, Suppression of Long-Range Collective Effects in Meta-Surfaces Formed by Plasmonic Antenna Pairs,” has been published in Optics Express, Focus Issue on Collective Phenomena in Photonic, Plasmonic and Hybrid Structures, Vol. 19, No. 22, pp. 22142-22155.
October 21, 2011: the paper A. Di Falco, Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Optical Metasurfaces with Robust Angular Response on Flexible Substrates,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 99, 163110.
October 17, 2011: the paper Y. Lee, A. Alù, and J. X. J. Zhang, “Efficient apertureless scanning probes using patterned plasmonic surfaces,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
October 13, 2011: Pai-Yen Chen wins the 3rd prize at the Metamaterials 2011Student Paper Competition with the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Atomic-Scale Mantle Cloak Using a Graphene Monolayer”.
October 3, 2011: the paper A. Di Falco, Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Optical metasurfaces with robust angular response on flexible substrates,” has been accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
October 2, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, S. Guenneau, S. Enoch, and A. Alù, “Acoustic scattering cancellation via ultrathin pseudo-surface,” has been accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
September 30, 2011: the invited paper A. Alù and N. Engheta, “Optical metamaterials based on optical nanocircuits,” has been published in Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 99, No. 10, pp. 1669-1681.
September 26, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù “Mantle-cloaking using thin patterned metasurfaces,” has been accepted in Physical Review B.
September 22, 2011: the invited paper A. Alù and N. Engheta, “Extremely anisotropic boundary conditions and their optical applications,” has been published in Radio Science, Special Issue for URSI EMTS 2010, Vol. 46, RS0E11 (8 pages).
September 22, 2011: the paper S. H. Mousavi, A. B. Khanikaev, B. Neuner III, D. Y. Fozdar, T. D. Corrigan, P. W. Kolb, H. D. Drew, R. J. Phaneuf, A. Alù, and G. Shvets, “Suppression of long-range collective effects in meta-surfaces formed by plasmonic antenna pairs,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
September 21, 2011: the invited paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù,, “Homogenization of plasmonic metasurfaces as transmission-line loads,” has been published in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials’2010, Vol. 5, No. 2-3, pp. 90-96.
September 21, 2011: the invited paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Homogenization of quasi-isotropic metamaterials composed of dense arrays of magnetodielectric spheres,” has been published in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials’2010, Vol. 5, No. 2-3, pp. 56-63.
September 16, 2011: Andrea Alù has been awarded the Defense Threat Reduction AgencyYoung Investigator Award with project title “Metamaterials and Metasurfaces to Realize Cloaks, Anti-Cloaks, Isolators and Energy Concentrators”.
September 12, 2011: the paper Y. Li, A. Alù, and H. Ling, “Investigation of directive radiation from a metal cut-wire array in the surface-wave and leaky-wave regions,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
September 6, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic tunneling of obliquely incident waves through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive uniaxial slab,” has been published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 28, No. 10, pp. 2362-2368.
September 2, 2011: our AFOSR-funded research on metamaterials has been highlighted in Signal Magazine.
August 26, 2011: the paper A. Alù, A. D. Yaghjian, R. A. Shore, and M. G. Silveirinha, “Causality relations in the homogenization of metamaterials,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 5, 054305 (16 pages).
August 24, 2011: the book chapter A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic cloaking: scattering cancellation without isolation,” has appeared in Introduction to Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals, A. Andreone, A. Cusano, A. Cutolo, V. Galdi, eds., World Scientific, pp. 263-283.
August 15, 2011: the paper A. Alù, “First-principles homogenization theory for periodic Metamaterial Arrays,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 7, 075153 (18 pages).
August 8, 2011: our recent realization and measurement of the first 3D cloak operating in free-space, in collaboration with the Applied Research Laboratories, has been highlighted in Physics Worldand PhysOrg.
July 26, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Atomically-thin surface cloak using graphene monolayers,” has been published in ACS Nano, Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 5855-5863.
July 25, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic tunneling of obliquely-incident waves through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive uniaxial slab,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Optical Society of America B.
July 6, 2011: Yang Zhao wins the 1st prize at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation SymposiumStudent Paper Competition with the paper Y. Zhao, A. Alù, “Broadband Circular Polarizers Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces”!
July 6, 2011: Pai-Yen Chen is a finalist in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation SymposiumStudent Paper Competition and Xing-Xiang Liu receives an honorable mention for their papers: P.Y. Chen, A. Alù, “Optical Nonlinear Metasurfaces Formed by Plasmonic Nanoantennas,” X.X. Liu, A. Alù, “First-Principle Homogenization of Magnetodielectric Metamaterial Arrays”.
July 5, 2011: the paper E. Kallos, C. Argyropoulos, Y. Hao, and A. Alù, “Comparison of frequency responses of cloaking devices under non-monochromatic illumination,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 4, 045102 (8 pages).
July 5, 2011: Andrea Alù has been elected Senior Member of SPIE.
June 30, 2011: our paper on graphene cloaksis highlighted on the frontpage of Nanowerk.com.
June 29, 2011: the paper A. Alù, A. D. Yaghjian, R. A. Shore, and M. G. Silveirinha, “Causality relations in the homogenization of metamaterials,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
June 27, 2011: the URSI awards and the Issac Koga Gold Medal have been announced in the Radio Science Bulletincover page.
June 21, 2011: the invited paper M. D. Guild, M. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic cloaking and scattering cancelation for electromagnetic and acoustic waves,” has been published in Wave Motion, Special Issue on Cloaking, Vol. 48, pp. 468-482.
June 21, 2011: the invited paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Analytical study of spherical cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been published in Wave Motion, Special Issue on Cloaking, Vol. 48, pp. 455-467.
June 20, 2011: the invited paper X X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Limitations and potentials of metamaterial lenses,” has been published in Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 5, 053509.
June 16, 2011: the invited paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Extremely anisotropic boundary conditions and their optical applications,” has been accepted for publication in Radio Science, Special Issue for URSI EMTS 2010.
June 12, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Atomically-thin surface cloak using graphene monolayers,” has been accepted for publication in ACS Nano.June 7, 2011: the paper A. Alù, “First-principle homogenization theory for periodic metamaterial arrays,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
June 6, 2011: the paper A. Hosseini, D. Kwong, Y. Zhang, A. Alù, and R. T. Chen, Appl. Opt. 50, 1822 (2011) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No. 22.
June 1, 2011: Andrea Alù has become an Associate Editor of Optics Express.
June 1, 2011: the paper M. D. Guild, A. Alù, M. R. Haberman, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129, 1355 (2011) has been themost downloaded JASA paper in April 2011.
May 17, 2011: the paper E. Kallos, C. Argyropoulos, Y. Hao, and A. Alù, “Comparison of frequency responses of cloaking devices under non-monochromatic illumination,” has been accepted in Physical Review B.
May 16, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28, 1266 (2011) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No. 19.
May 9, 2011: our research has been highlighted in the U.S. Air Force of Scientific Research Office Newsarticle “Award-Winning Metamaterials Research to Shape Future Air Force Systems”.
April 28, 2011: the invited paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Homogenization of plasmonic metasurfaces as transmission-line loads,” has been accepted for publication in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials’2010.
April 20, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Effects of shape and loading of optical nanoantennas on their sensitivity and radiation properties,” has been published in Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 1266-1274.
April 20, 2011: the paper A. Hosseini, D. Kwong, Y. Zhang, A. Alù, and R. T. Chen, “Modeling and experimental observation of on-chip two-dimensional far-field interference pattern,” has been published in Applied Optics, Vol. 50, No. 13, pp. 1822-1826.
April 18, 2011: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, N. Engheta, New J. Phys. 13, 033026 (2011) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No. 15.
April 19, 2011: the paper J. T. Costa, M. G. Silveirinha, and A. Alù, “Poynting vector in negative-index metamaterials,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 83, No. 16, 165120 (8 pages).
April 13, 2011: the invited paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Homogenization of quasi-isotropic metamaterials composed of dense arrays of magnetodielectric spheres,” has been accepted for publication in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials’2010.
March 23, 2011: the paper A. Alù, G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, and M. Bloemer, “Plasmonic Brewster angle: broadband extraordinary transmission through optical gratings,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, No. 12, 123902 (4 pages).
March 22, 2011: A. Alù is the recipient of the 2011 Issac Koga Gold Medal, for ‘contributions to the theory and application of electromagnetic metamaterials, in particular the conception of plasmonic-based cloaking, optical nanocircuits, and anomalous propagation and radiation in metamaterials’! He will receive this triennial award next August 14 at the opening ceremony of the XXX URSI General Assemblyin Istanbul, Turkey.
March 21, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, and A. Alù, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105503 (2011) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No. 11, March 21, 2011.
March 18, 2011: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Coupling and guided propagation along parallel chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 13, 033026 (23 pages).
March 18, 2011: the paper M. D. Guild, A. Alù, and M. Haberman, “Cancellation of acoustic scattering from an elastic sphere,” has been published in Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 1355-1365.
March 10, 2011: the paper A. Polemi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guidance properties of plasmonic nanogrooves: comparison between the effective index method and the finite integration technique,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 199-202.
March 8, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Effects of shape and loading of optical nanoantennas on its sensitivity and radiation properties,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Optical Society of America B.
March 8, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, and A. Alù, “Bistable and self-tunable negative index metamaterial at optical frequencies,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, No. 10, 105503 (4 pages).
March 5, 2011: Pai-Yen Chen has been selected as a finalist of the student paper competition at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposiumin Spokane, WA, July 3-8, 2011, with the paper P. Y. Chen, A. Alù, “Optical nonlinear metasurfaces formed by plasmonic nanoantennas”.
March 5, 2011: Yang Zhao has been selected as a finalist of the student paper competition at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposiumin Spokane, WA, July 3-8, 2011, with the paper Y. Zhao, A. Alù, “Broadband circular polarizers using plasmonic metasurfaces”.
March 5, 2011: Xing-Xiang Liu has received an honorable mention in the student paper competition at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposiumin Spokane, WA, July 3-8, 2011, with the paper X. X. Liu, A. Alù, “First-principle homogenization of magnetodielectric metamaterial arrays”.
March 2, 2011: the paper A. Hosseini, D. Kwong, Y. Zhang, A. Alù, and R. T. Chen, “Modeling and experimental observation of on-chip two-dimensional far field interference pattern,” has been accepted for publication in Applied Optics.
March 2, 2011: the paper A. Polemi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guidance properties of plasmonic nanogrooves: comparison between the effective index method and the finite integration technique,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
February 24, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic tunneling through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive bi-layer,” has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications, Vol. 83, No. 8, 081105(R) (4 pages).
February 24, 2011: the invited paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Analytical study of spherical cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been accepted for publication in Wave Motion, Special Issue on Cloaking.
February 24, 2011: the paper J. T. Costa, M. G. Silveirinha, and A. Alù, “Poynting vector in negative-index metamaterials,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
February 22, 2011: the invited paper M. D. Guild, M. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic cloaking and scattering cancellation for electromagnetic and acoustic waves,” has been accepted for publication in Wave Motion, Special Issue on Cloaking.
February 21, 2011: the invited paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Limitations and potentials of metamaterial lenses,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Nanophotonics, Special Issue on Subwavelength Imaging.
February 17, 2011: the paper A. Alù, “Restoring the physical meaning of metamaterial constitutive parameters,” has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications, Vol. 83, No. 8, 081102(R) (4 pages).
February 17, 2011: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, N. Engheta, “Coupling and guided propagation along parallel chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.
February 11, 2011: the paper A. Alù, G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, and M. Bloemer, “Plasmonic Brewster angle: broadband extraordinary transmission through optical gratings,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
February 9, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, and A. Alù, “Bistable and self-tunable negative index metamaterial at optical frequencies,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
February 9, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic tunneling through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive bi-layer,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications.
February 8, 2011: the paper A. Alù, N. Engheta, “Optical metamaterials based on optical nanocircuits,” has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of IEEE.
January 31, 2011: the paper A. Alù, “Restoring the physical meaning of metamaterial constitutive parameters,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications.
January 27, 2011: the paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, A. Alù, and M. Bloemer, “Quenched optical transmission in ultrathin subwavelength plasmonic gratings,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 83, 035426 (11 pages).
January 12, 2011: the paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, M. J. Bloemer, D. de Ceglia, M. A. Vincenti, and A. Alù, “Transmission resonances in plasmonic metallic gratings” has been published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 253-264.
January 6, 2011: the paper M. D. Guild, A. Alù, and M. Haberman, “Cancellation of acoustic scattering from an elastic sphere,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Acoustical Society of America.
January 4, 2011: the invited feature paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Emission enhancement in a plasmonic waveguide at cut-off,” has been published in Materials, Special Issue on Next Wave of Metamaterials, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 141-152.