News Archives – 2015
December 8, 2015: Andrea Alù has been awarded the 2016 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas ‘For a number of groundbreaking, highly-cited and recognized contributions to science and engineering. These contributions include seminal work on cloaking and invisibility, pioneering advances in optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas, magnetic-free non-reciprocal devices for sound, radio-waves and light, and giant nonlinear response in optical metamaterials’. He will receive the award in Dallas, TX, on Jan. 21 during the TAMEST Annual Conference.
December 1, 2015: Our highlight on hyperbolic metasurfaces for ultrathin devices has appeared in Ooptics and Photonics News, Year in Optics 2015 issue.
November 12, 2015: Romain Fleury has won the Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America!
November 10, 2015: Our paper on nonlinear Pancharatnam-Berry gradient metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters.
October 27, 2015: Our Journal of Applied Physics paper on acoustic scattering cancellation of odd-shaped objects, in collaboration with colleagues at NRL and ARL, has been featured on the journal cover, selected as featured article, and highlighted by an American Institute of Physics press release.
October 22, 2015: Yang Zhao has won the Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award from the American Physical Society for her PhD dissertation ‘Bio-Inspired Nanophotonics: Manipulating Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonic Metamaterials’!
October 7, 2015: Our paper on a topological insulator for acoustic waves has been published in Nature Communications.
September 24, 2015: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society ‘for seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials’ upon recommendation of the Division of Laser Science.
September 25, 2015: Romain Fleury has been appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
September 24, 2015: Our paper introducing the concept of time-gradient metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications.
September 1, 2015: Our invited review paper on cloaking, from origins to future perspectives, has been published in Physical Review Applied.
September 1, 2015: Our invited review paper on nonreciprocal acoustics has been published in Acoustics Today.
July 20, 2015: Francesco Monticone has received an IEEE Photonics Society 2015 Graduate Student Fellowship.
July 16, 2015: Our paper presenting a new way to cloaking based on parity-time symmetric metasurfaces with balanced loss and gain has been published in Physical Review Applied.
June 11, 2015: Our paper on hyperblic plasmons and topological transitions on metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters.
May 26, 2015: Our paper on leaky-wave applications from RF to the visible has been published in the Proceedings of IEEE.May 22-23, 2015: Romain Fleury, Jason Soric, and Nicholas Estep successfully defended their PhDs.
May 21, 2015: Nicholas Estep has been awarded the third place at the Student Paper Compeition in the 2015 Intenational Microwave Symposium, Phoenix, AZ, for his work on magnetic-free circulators.
May 1, 2015: Our review paper on nanophotonics, in collaboration with AMOLF colleagues A. Polman and A. F. Koenderink, has been published in Science.
April 25, 2015: Our inventions to realize magnetic-free circulators for radio-frequency and sound have been licensed to Silicon Audio.
April 23, 2015: Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz has received the Junior Raj Mittra Travel Grant Award. he will receive it at the awards banquet at the 2015 IEEE AP-S Symposium in Vancouver, Canada.
April 16, 2015: The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Andrea Alù, the 2015 Alan T. Waterman Award, the highest U.S. honor for young scientists in any field of research. The award comes with $1 million and will be presented at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 5. Alù is the first recipient from a Texas university. News brief and video from NSF.
April 16, 2015: Our review paper ‘Metamaterials and plasmonics: From nanoparticles to nanoantenna arrays, metasurfaces, and metamaterials’ was the most downloaded paper from Chinese Physics B in 2014.
April 10, 2015: Andrea Alù has been invited to speak at the 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering, taking place Sept. 9-11 in Irvine, CA. He will present a on ‘Creating New Devices with Metamaterials’.
March 13, 2015: Francesco Monticone and Jason Soric have received Honorable Mentions at the 2015 IEEE AP-S student paper competition.
March 13, 2015: Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz received the URSI Young Scientist Award from the First Atlantic URSI Conference.
February 5, 2015: Our paper on Ultrafast modulation with polaritonic metasurfaces was selected for the 2014 Best of Advanced Optical Materials.
January 30, 2015: Two of our recent papers, the topical review ‘Recent advances in optical metasurfaces’ and ‘Infrared beam-steering using acoustically modulated surface plasmons over a graphene monolayer,’ have been selected by the editors as Journal of Optics’ Highlights of 2014.
January 6, 2015: Our paper on an invisible acoustic sensor based on PT-symmetry has just been published in Nature Communications.
January 4, 2015: Andrea Alù has been awarded the KNAW Visiting Professorship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.