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Silver Nanocubes Super Light Absorbers

Silver Nanocubes Super Light Absorbers

Richard Merritt of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University recently released "Silver Nanocubes Super Light Absorbers" and  the application of Research Scientist Cristian Ciraci and Faculty, David R. Smith. You can read the full article below; POST DATE: 2012-12-06

"Sprinkled Nanocubes hold light tight", Nature News

"Sprinkled Nanocubes hold light tight", Nature News

NATURE News recently released the article "Sprinkled nanocubes hold light tight" by Katharine Sanderson discusiing how scattering silver nanocubes over a mettalic film may help harvest the sun's rays. Read the full article below; 05 December 2012 "Just sprinkle on and harvest light — that is the…

David Smith awarded " 2013 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials"

David Smith awarded " 2013 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials"

Professor David Smith has been awarded the 2013 James C. McGroddy Prize of APS for New Materials sponsored by IBM together with Drs. John B. Pendry, Imperial College and Costas M. Soukoulis, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University. The Prize was established to recognize and encourage…

Hiding in Plain Sight

Hiding in Plain Sight

"Invisibility is an illusion, a way of manipulating light so that a hidden object cannot be perceived. In the same way that magicians use mirrors to make things disappear, we can now use metamaterials". Stated David Smith and Nathan Landy, Duke Researchers from Electrical and Computer…

Real life invisibility cloak perfected by Duke Researchers (Video)

Real life invisibility cloak perfected by Duke Researchers (Video)

Examiner.com, Mashable Scienceblog and grabnetworks.com feature a short video discussing the first invisibility cloak that "perfectly" obscures items and the research developed by Nathan Landy and David R. Smith, Duke researchers in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The video briefly covers…

Gadzooks, Another Invisibility Cloak! So Why Is This One ‘Perfect'? - TIME Tech News

Gadzooks, Another Invisibility Cloak! So Why Is This One ‘Perfect'? - TIME Tech News

TIME Tech features an innovation piece discussing the recent study published in Nature Materials by Duke researchers Nathan Landy and David R. Smith.

"Blue Devils quidditch team will be unstoppable!"

"Blue Devils quidditch team will be unstoppable!"

The metamaterials group and the Duke Quidditch team appreciate Stephen Colbert's reporting on our recent publication regarding the development of a new invisibility cloak. Noted Colbert, "...now the Blue Devils quidditch team will be unstoppable!" The latest cloak, designed by Nathan Landy and…

BBC discusses CMIP's success in cloaking

BBC discusses CMIP's success in cloaking

In early November of 2012 Science and Technology reporter Jason Palmer for BBC News discusses the success of Duke Scientists and Center for Metamatrial members David Smith and Nathan Landy in "cloaking" an object perfectly for the first time, rendering a centimeter-scale cylinder invisible to…

"Making a Better Invisibility Cloak"

"Making a Better Invisibility Cloak"

by Richard Merritt DURHAM, N.C. – The first working “cloaking” device reported by Duke University electrical engineers in 2006 worked like a charm, but it wasn’t perfect. Now a member of that laboratory has come up with a design that ties up one of the major loose ends from the original device…

Nathan Kundtz's MTenna May Replace the Satellite Dish

Nathan Kundtz's MTenna May Replace the Satellite Dish

Kymeta breaking into the Technology Industry certainly made some waves, recently Olga Kharif a reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek reported on Kymeta's success and spoke with CTO Nathan Kundtz.

Metamaterials'2012: The 6th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics

Metamaterials'2012: The 6th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics

The Sixth International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials 2012 - consisted of a 4-day conference September 17th-22nd and a 2-day Doctoral School (21–22 September). Organized by the Metamorphose Virtual Institute and hosted by the National…

Probing the Ultimate Limits of Plasmonic Enhancement earns SCIENCE Cover

Probing the Ultimate Limits of Plasmonic Enhancement earns SCIENCE Cover

Postdoc Cristian Ciraci and team earned the cover of SCIENCE Magazine in August, 2012 Vol. 337 no. 6098 pp. 1072-1074 with "Probing the Ultimate Limits of Plasmonic Enhancement"

CMIP joins Linkedin- Social Network

CMIP joins Linkedin- Social Network

CMIP has joined Linkedin! LinkedIn is an online professional network designed to help members find jobs, connect with other professionals, and locate business opportunities. Join our Group! Add Center for Metamaterials Linkedin Groupto your LinkedIn network! This group offers an opportunity for…

"How to Make Anything Disappear"

"How to Make Anything Disappear"

In July's Special Issue of Discover Magazine, author Adam Piore discusses the sophisticated cloaking devices that may soon hide objects from light, sound, water and even earthquakes! For the full DISCOVER Magazine article click here

KYMETA- Affordable, electronic beam steering Antennas for satcoms

KYMETA- Affordable, electronic beam steering Antennas for satcoms

This week marks the official launch of Kymeta –a new company that aims to commercialize emerging metamaterials concepts. After more than a year of development and incubation in the Intellectual Ventures Lab, the mTenna™ has been developed, with a mission to simplify the connection between mobile…