News Archives – 2016
December 17, 2016: Andrea Alù has been selected for the inaguural Materials Young Investigator Award from MDPI.
December 16, 2016: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of SPIE ‘for achievements in optical metamaterials and plasmonics’.
December 5, 2016: Andrea Alù has been selected to receive the ICO Prize in Optics. He will receive the award and deliver the Ernst Abbe Lecture at the ICO General Congress in Tokyo, Japan.
November 29, 2016: Our paper on nonreciprocity and magnetic-free isolation based on optomechanical interactions, in collaboration with our colleagues at AMOLF, has been published in Nature Communications. A press release is available here.
November 23, 2016: Our News and Views paper on the present state and future directions in metamaterials has been pblished in Nature Materials.
November 19, 2016: Our paper on tunable nanoantennas, in collaboration with ITMO, has appeared in Laser & Photonics Reviews and featured in IEEE Spectrum
October 25, 2016: Our paper on parity-time symmetric metasurfaces for imaging has been published in Physical Review X.
October 14, 2016: Our paper on transforming optical wavefronts using graded metasurfaces has appeared in Physical Review X.
September 22, 2016: Congratulations to Mykhailo Tymchenko for receiving the Best Paper Award (2nd place) at the Metamaterials 2016 conference in Crete!
August 30, 2016: Andrea Alù has received the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science. He will receive the award and deliver the award lecture at the 2016 MRS Fall meeting.
August 8, 2016: Our Emerging Frontiers in Research (EFRI) proposal on New frontiers for topologically-protected propagation of light, sound, elastic and mechanical waves has been selected for award by the National Science Foundation.
July 31, 2016: Congratulations to Francesco Monticone, Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz and Yakir Hadad for having accepted faculty positions at Cornell University, UC Davis and Tel Aviv University, respectively!
July 3, 2016: Our paper on the theoretical bounds on the bandwidth of passive metamaterial cloaks has been published in Optica. Several news outlets have highlighted our work, including Optics and Photonics News, Huffington Post, Motherboard (press release).
July 29, 2016: Congratulations to Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri for receiving an IEEE Photonics Graduate Fellowship!
June 17, 2016: Our paper on Floquet topological insulators for sound has been published in Nature Communications.
June 9, 2016: Ahmed Kord has received a 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Doctoral Research Award with the project ‘New Frontiers in Electromagnetic Metamaterials Using Active Circuits’.
June 2, 2016: Our paper on the analogue of the Drexhage effect for sound, in collaboration with our colleagues at AMOLF, has been published in Physical Review Letters, selected as Editor’s Suggestion, and highligted with a Synopsis in Physics.
June 1, 2016: Andrea Alù has been selected as a National Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering.
May 9, 2016: Francesco Monticone has received the WNCG Student Leadership Award from the Wireless Networking and Coimmunications Group at UT Austin.
May 5, 2016: Andrea Alù has been named a Simons Investigator in Physics. This program aims to provide a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term (up to 10 years) investigations of the fundamental questions in their fields.
April 19, 2016: Ahmed Kord has received a 2016 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for the project ‘Fully-Integrated Reconfigurable Magnet-less Non-reciprocal Components for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems’, in collaboration with Columbia University.
April 19, 2016: Our paper on plasmonic NEMS for infrared sensing, in collaboration with Prof. Rinaldi at NEU, has been published in Nature Communications.
April 12, 2016: Our paper on giant photoresponsivity in mid-IR hyperbolic metamaterial devices has been published in Physical Review Applied and selected as Editors’ Suggestion.
April 8, 2016: Our Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) proposal on Ultralow Power, Ultrafast, Integrated Nano-Optoelectronics has been selected for award by the U.S. Department of Defense. We look forward to several years of exciting nanophotonics research with our team members at Stanford, Harvard and UPenn.
April 1, 2016: Our latest research on cloaking and radio-frequency transparency was featured on Fox 7.
March 29, 2016: Our paper on time-modulated antennas, that break the symmetry between emission and absorption has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and it has been highlighted in several news outlets, including Physics World and Physics Today.
March 17, 2016: Dr. Yakir Hadad has received the 2016 Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics. He will receive the award at the banquet of EuCAP in Davos, Switzerland in April.
March 8, 2016: Our paper on nonlinear gradient metasurfaces,was published in Optica.
February 12, 2016: Andrea Alù has been awarded the inaugural ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship. He will receive the award and give a plenary talk at META’16 next July in Malaga, Spain.
February 16, 2016: Our invited review paper on acoustic metamaterials was published in Nature Reviews Materials.
February 1, 2016: Our paper on magnetic-free radio-frequency circulators based on spatiotemporally modulated coupled resonators was published in the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.