News Archives – 2012

December 28, 2012: Our paper J. Soric, S. Maci, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Omnidirectional Small Antennas Based on ε-Near-Zero Channel Matching,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 33-44.

December 20, 2012: Our paper A. Monti, J. Soric, A. Alù, A. Toscano, L. Vegni, and F. Bilotti,“Overcoming Mutual Blockage Between Neighboring Dipole Antennas Using a Low-Profile Patterned Metasurface,” has been published inIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 11, pp. 1414-1417.

December 6, 2012: Our invited review paper P. Y. Chen, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Enhanced Nonlinearities Using Plasmonic Nanoantennas,”has been published in Nanophotonics, Vol. 1, No. 3-4, pp. 221-233.

December 6, 2012: Our paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Effects of Shape and Loading of Optical Nanoantennas on Their Sensitivity and Radiation Properties,”Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 1266-1274, April 27, 2011 has been awarded the 2012 CST University Publication Award!

December 3, 2012: Our invited paper F. Monticone, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Cloaking Plasmonic Layers to Tailor the Optical Scattering at the Nnanoscale,”has been published in Scientific Reports, Special Issue for E-MRS 2012, Vol. 2, No. 912

November 21, 2012: Our paper Y. R. Padooru, A. B. Yakovlev, P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Line-Source Excitation of Realistic Conformal Metasurface Cloaks,”has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 112, No. 10, 104902 (11 pages).

November 20, 2012: Our review paper P. Y. Chen, J. Soric, and A. Alù, “Invisibility and Cloaking Based on Scattering Cancellation,” has been published inAdvanced Optical Materials, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. OP281-OP304. An image from this article has been selected as the inside cover figure.

November 12, 2012: Our paper M. Farhat, P. Y. Chen, S. Guenneau, S. Enoch, and A. Alù,“Frequency-Selective Surface Acoustic Invisibility for Three-Dimensional Immersed Objects,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 86, No. 17, 174303 (8 pages).

November 7, 2012: Our paper K. Q. Le, C. Argyropoulos, N. Mattiucci, G. D’Aguanno, M. J. Bloemer, and A. Alù,“Broadband Brewster Transmission through 2D Metallic Gratings,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 112, No. 9, 094317 (4 pages).

November 1, 2012: Our paper P. Y. Chen, H. Huang, D. Akinwande, and A. Alù, “Distributed Amplifiers Based on Spindt-Type Field Emission Nanotriodes,”has been published in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 1201-1211. An image from this article was selected for the front cover!

October 28, 2012: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Exotic Properties and Potential Applications of Quantum Metamaterials,” has been published inApplied Physics A, Special Issue for META’12.

October 19, 2012: Our review paper P. Y. Chen, J. Soric, and A. Alù, “Invisibility and Cloaking Based on Scattering Cancellation,”has been published in Advanced Materials, Vol. 24, No. 4.

September 17, 2012: Our paper G. Castaldi, S. Savoia, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta,“Analytical Study of Subwavelength Imaging by Uniaxial Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterial Slabs,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 86, No. 11, 115123 (10 pages).

September 7, 2012: Our paper M. D. Guild, M. R. Haberman, A. Alù, “Plasmonic-Type Acoustic Cloak Made of a Bilaminate Shell,”has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 86, No. 10, 104302 (13 pages).

August 21, 2012: Our paper M. A. Shapiro, S. Trendafilov, Y. Urzhumov, A. Alù, R. J. Temkin, and G. Shvets, “Active Negative-Index Metamaterial Powered by an Electron Beam,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 86, No. 8, 085132 (5 pages).

August 14, 2012: Our paper Y. R. Padooru, A. B. Yakovlev, P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù,“Analytical Modeling of Conformal Mantle Cloaks for Cylindrical Objects Using Sub-Wavelength Printed and Slotted Arrays,”has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 112, No. 3, 034907 (13 pages).

July 23, 2012: Our paper Y. Lee, K. Hoshino, A. Alù, J. X. J. Zhang, “Efficient Directional Beaming from Small Apertures Using Surface-Plasmon Diffraction Gratings,”has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 101, No. 4, 041102 (4 pages).

July 6, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Enhanced Nonlinear Effects in Metamaterials and Plasmonics,” has been published inAdvanced Electromagnetics, Special Issue for META’12, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 46-51.

June 27, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, P. Y. Chen, F. Monticone, G. D’Aguanno, and A. Alù, “Nonlinear Plasmonic Cloaks to Realize Giant All-Optical Scattering Switching,”has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, No. 26, 263905 (5 pages).

June 2, 2012: Congratulations to Matthew D. Guild, who won the 1st prize at the Acoustics 2012 Student Paper Competition in Engineering Acoustics in Hong Kongwith the paper M. D. Guild, M. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Achieving a Broadband Plasmonic-Type Acoustic Cloak Using Multilayered, Spherically Isotropic Elastic Shells”.

May 31, 2012: The paper D. Rainwater, A. Kerkhoff, K. Melin, J. C. Soric, G. Moreno, and A. Alù,“Experimental Verification of Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Cloaking in Free-Space,” New Journal of Physics, Vol. 14, 013054 (13 pages) has been included in IoP Select.

May 29, 2012: Our paper Y. Zhao, M. A. Belkin, and A. Alù, “Twisted Optical Metamaterials for Planarized, Ultrathin, Broadband Circular Polarizers,”has been published inNature Communications, Vol. 3, No. 870!.

May 16, 2012: Our paper N. Mattiucci, G. D’Aguanno, A. Alù, C. Argyropoulos, J. V. Foreman, and M. J. Bloemer,“Taming the Thermal Emissivity of Metals: a Metamaterial Approach,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 100, No. 20, 201109.

May 15, 2012: Our paper N. Akozbek, N. Mattiucci, D. De Ceglia, R. Trimm, A. Alù, G. D’Aguanno, M. A. Vincenti, M. Scalora, and M. J. Bloemer,“Experimental Demonstration of Plasmonic Brewster Angle Extraordinary Transmission through Extreme Subwavelength Slit Arrays in the Microwave,”has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 20, 205430 (4 pages).

April 24, 2012: A video featuring our cloaking research from TACC has been posted on Youtube.

April 13, 2012: Our paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, A. Alù, C. Argyropoulos, J. V. Foreman, and M. J. Bloemer, “Thermal Emission From a Metamaterial Wire Medium Slab,”has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 20, No. 9, pp. 9784-9789.

March 30, 2012: Our paper A. Abass, K. Q. Le, A. Alù, M. Burgelman, and B. Maes, “Dual-Interface Gratings for Broadband Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Solar Cells,”has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 11, 115449 (8 pages).

March 28, 2012: Our paper G. D’Aguanno, K. Q. Le, R. Trimm, A. Alù, N. Mattiucci, A. D. Mathias, N. Akozbek, and M. J. Bloemer,“Broadband Metamaterial for Nonresonant Matching of Acoustic Waves,” has been published in Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 2, No. 340 (5 pages)!

March 23, 2012: Congratulations to J. C. Soric who won the Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at the 2012 Mini-Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS 2012), Waco, TX with the paper J. C. Soric, A. Alù, “Microwave Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials”.

March 23, 2012: Our paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, New J. Phys. 13, 033026 (2011) has been selected for inclusion in the exclusive ‘Highlights of 2011‘ collectionof the New Journal of Physics.

March 13, 2012: Our paper Y. Li, A. Alù, and H. Ling, “Investigation of Leaky-Wave Propagation and Radiation in a Metal Cut-Wire Array,” has been published inIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 1630-1634.

March 8, 2012: Congratulations to Nasim M. Estakhri, who has received the first rank among all 2011 M.Sc. Engineering students at the University of Tehran.

February 21, 2012: Our paper Y. Sun, B. Edwards, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Realization of Optical Lumped Nanocircuits at Infrared Wavelengths,”has been published in Nature Materials, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 208-212!

February 19, 2012: Our invited paper P. Y. Chen, F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Suppressing the Electromagnetic Scattering with an Helical Mantle Cloak,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Special Cluster on Metamaterials, Vol. 10, pp. 1598-1601.

February 10, 2012: Our paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta “Nonlocal Transformation Optics,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, No. 6, 063902.

January 31, 2012: Andrea Alù has received the 2012 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award.

January 31, 2012: Our paper New Journal of Physics 14, 013054 (2012) on 3D cloaking has been downloaded 5093 times in the first 2 days.

January 31, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, M. J. Bloemer, and A. Alù, “Matching and Funneling Light at the Plasmonic Brewster Angle,”has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 2, 024304 (9 pages).

January 27, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, P. Y. Chen, G. D’Aguanno, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Boosting Optical Nonlinearities in Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Channels,”has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 4, 045129 (5 pages).

January 25, 2012: Our paper on 3D plasmonic cloaking has gathered worldwide attention in the general press, see BBC News, IoP News, Kurzweil, PhysOrg, Al Jazeera,Huffington Post, Wired, EnGadget, Science Illustrated. It is the most shared and most read news on BBC News.

January 25, 2012: Our paper D. Rainwater, A. Kerkhoff, K. Melin, J. C. Soric, G. Moreno, and A. Alù, “Experimental Verification of Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Cloaking in Free-Space,” has been published in the New Journal of Physics, Vol. 14, 013054 (13 pages).

January 6, 2012: Congratulations to Pai-Yen Chen, who won the 3rd prize at the USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting  Student Paper Competition in Boulder, CO,with the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Ultra-Broadband Mantle Cloak Using Non-Foster Negative-Impedance Metasurfaces”.