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CMIP is awarded Duke's Green Workplace Certification

CMIP is awarded Duke's Green Workplace Certification

Duke University seeks to attain and maintain a place of leadership in all that we do. This includes leadership in environmental stewardship and sustainability on our campus, in our medical institutions, and in the larger community of which we are a part. In addition to offering new courses for…

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters Special Edition Guest Editors

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters Special Edition Guest Editors

Professor David Smith and Professor Steve Cummer (an affiliate for the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics and a Faculty member of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University) both have articles appearing in a special cluster issue on metamaterials in 'Antennas and…

Infrared metamaterial phase holograms- "Nature Materials"

Infrared metamaterial phase holograms- "Nature Materials"

Duke University Engineers believe that continued advances in creating ever-more exotic and sophisticated man-made materials will greatly improve their ability to control light at will.

MRS Materials 360 ® Global View March 2012

MRS Materials 360 ® Global View March 2012

Magnetostatic Surface Resonances Increase Levitation ForcesDuke University and Boston College by Tim Palucka

Cloaking Paper Selected as 'Journal of Optics' Top 25

Cloaking Paper Selected as 'Journal of Optics' Top 25

The Journal of Optics handpicks articles each year including review articles, special issue articles and regular papers. Each article has received an excellent response from the Optics community, deemed highly commended by the journal board and has been highly downloaded throughout 2011.

The Science of Invisibility

The Science of Invisibility

Harry Potter and numerous sci-fi novels have glamorized the idea of a cloak of invisibility, but Duke engineering professor David R. Smith has come up with a blueprint for the real thing. His research on a prototype cloak was selected as one of the top-ten scientific breakthroughs of the year in…

Chairman of Joint Chiefs visits CMIP

Chairman of Joint Chiefs visits CMIP

The Center hosted a visit on January 13th, 2012 from General Martin Dempsey, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Dempsey discussed metamaterials and their potential applications with Prof. Smith and his group, and received a brief tutorial as to how metamaterials are designed,…

New metamaterial cloaking concept promises vessel motion without resistance or wake

New metamaterial cloaking concept promises vessel motion without resistance or wake

CMIP researchers demonstrate “fluid flow cloak" and possibility of no wake.

Novel negative-index frequency-doubling device demonstrates the next step in light manipulation

Novel negative-index frequency-doubling device demonstrates the next step in light manipulation

For most materials, the light that enters is the same light that exits. It may reflect, refract, or attenuate, but it's still the same light. For highly intense light, however, certain 'nonlinear' materials violate this rule of thumb, converting the incoming energy into a brand new beam of light…

Effortless Sailing with Fluid Flow Cloak

Effortless Sailing with Fluid Flow Cloak

Duke engineers demonstrated the theoretical ability to significantly increase the efficiency of ships by tricking the surrounding water into staying still.

Smith Lab Featured on NOVA

Smith Lab Featured on NOVA

Professor Smith and the metamaterials lab will be featured on the upcoming NOVA program "Making Stuff," premiering February 9, 2011 on PBS. The episode, "Making Stuff Smarter," is hosted by New York Times technology reporter David Pogue (pictured) and explores a new generation of ingeneious…

Science Magazine picks Metamaterials as one of the Top Ten Insights of the Decade

Science Magazine picks Metamaterials as one of the Top Ten Insights of the Decade

In the past decade, physicists and engineers pioneered new ways to guide and manipulate light, creating lenses that defy the fundamental limit on the resolution of an ordinary lens and even constructing "cloaks" that make an object invisible—sort of. The feats sprang from a roughly 50–50 mixture…

Smith Finalist in WTN Award

Smith Finalist in WTN Award

David Smith has been selected as a finalist in the World Technology Network's World Technology Awards, in the category of Materials: Individual. The awards are given to those who "...are doing the innovative work of 'the greatest likely long-term significance' in their fields. View the winners…

Recent CMIP Paper on Ultra-Broadband Acoustic Cloaks Honored by the Institute of Physics (UK)

Recent CMIP Paper on Ultra-Broadband Acoustic Cloaks Honored by the Institute of Physics (UK)

The acoustic "sisters" of electromagnetic invisibility cloaks are long-sought devices that could defeat sonars. Unlike optical cloaks, such devices are not constrained by special relativity and could operate in a very wide frequency range. The existence of two types of acoustic waves in elastic…

Transformation Optics with Photonic Band Gap Media

Transformation Optics with Photonic Band Gap Media

Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility spans roughly one million wavelengths of the visible light. A metamaterial implementing it would need to have an attenuation constant of less than 1 dB/m.