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Archived News

2011

December 18, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Subwavelength Imaging Using Phase-Conjugating Nonlinear Nanoantenna Arrays,” has been published in Nano Letters, Vol. 11, No. 12, pp 5514–5518.
December 15, 2011: the paper Y. Sun, B. Edwards, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Realization of Optical Lumped Nanocircuit Elements at Infrared Wavelengths,” has been accepted for publication in Nature Materials.
December 6, 2011: the paper Y. Lee, A. Alù, and J. X. J. Zhang, “Efficient Apertureless Scanning Probes Using Patterned Plasmonic Surfaces,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 19, No. 27, pp. 25990–25999.
December 3, 2011: Andrè Esteva received the Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award in Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering Commencement Ceremony.
December 1, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta “Nonlocal Transformation Optics,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
December 1, 2011: the paper X. X. Liu, D. A. Powell, and A. Alù, “Correcting the Fabry-Perot Artifacts in Metamaterial Retrieval Procedures,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 23, 235106 (7 pages).
November 29, 2011: the paper P. C. Li, Y. Zhao, A. Alù, and E. T. Yu, “Experimental Realization and Modeling of a Subwavelength Frequency-Selective Plasmonic Metasurface,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 99, No. 22, 221106.
November 29, 2011: the invited paper P. Y. Chen, F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Suppressing the Electromagnetic Scattering with an Helical Mantle Cloak,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Special Cluster on Metamaterials.
November 28, 2011: the paper K. Q. Le, A. Abass, B. Maes, P. Bienstman, and A. Alù, “Comparing Plasmonic and Dielectric Gratings for Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Organic Solar Cells,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 20, No. 51, pp. A39-A50.
November 16, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Subwavelength Imaging Using Phase-Conjugating Nonlinear Nanoantenna Arrays,” has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters.
November 16, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Manipulating Light Polarization with Ultrathin Plasmonic Metasurfaces,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 20, 205428 (6 pages).
November 15, 2011: the paper X. X. Liu, D. A. Powell, and A. Alù, “Correcting the Fabry-Perot Artifacts in Metamaterial Retrieval Procedures,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
November 11, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, S. Guenneau, S. Enoch, and A. Alù, “Acoustic Scattering Cancellation via Ultrathin Pseudo-Surface,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 99, No. 19, 191913.
November 10, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Mantle Cloaking Using Thin Patterned Metasurfaces,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 20, 205110 (13 pages).
November 8, 2011: the paper P. C. Li, Y. Zhao, A. Alù, and E. T. Yu, “Experimental Realization and Modeling of a Subwavelength Frequency-Selective Plasmonic Metasurface,” has been accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters.
November 4, 2011: the paper K. Q. Le, A. Abass, B. Maes, P. Bienstman, and A. Alù, “Comparing Plasmonic and Dielectric Gratings for Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Organic Solar Cells,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
November 3, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Manipulating Light Polarization with Ultrathin Plasmonic Metasurfaces,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
October 24, 2011: the invited paper S. H. Mousavi, A. B. Khanikaev, B. Neuner III, D. Y. Fozdar, T. D. Corrigan, P. W. Kolb, H. D. Drew, R. J. Phaneuf, A. Alù, and G. Shvets, Suppression of Long-Range Collective Effects in Meta-Surfaces Formed by Plasmonic Antenna Pairs,” has been published in Optics Express, Focus Issue on Collective Phenomena in Photonic, Plasmonic and Hybrid Structures, Vol. 19, No. 22, pp. 22142-22155.
October 21, 2011: the paper A. Di Falco, Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Optical Metasurfaces with Robust Angular Response on Flexible Substrates,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 99, 163110.
October 17, 2011: the paper Y. Lee, A. Alù, and J. X. J. Zhang, “Efficient apertureless scanning probes using patterned plasmonic surfaces,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
October 13, 2011: Pai-Yen Chen wins the 3rd prize at the Metamaterials 2011 Student Paper Competition with the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Atomic-Scale Mantle Cloak Using a Graphene Monolayer”.
October 3, 2011: the paper A. Di Falco, Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Optical metasurfaces with robust angular response on flexible substrates,” has been accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
October 2, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, S. Guenneau, S. Enoch, and A. Alù, “Acoustic scattering cancellation via ultrathin pseudo-surface,” has been accepted in Applied Physics Letters.
September 30, 2011: the invited paper A. Alù and N. Engheta, “Optical metamaterials based on optical nanocircuits,” has been published in Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 99, No. 10, pp. 1669-1681.
September 26, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù “Mantle-cloaking using thin patterned metasurfaces,” has been accepted in Physical Review B.
September 22, 2011: the invited paper A. Alù and N. Engheta, “Extremely anisotropic boundary conditions and their optical applications,” has been published in Radio Science, Special Issue for URSI EMTS 2010, Vol. 46, RS0E11 (8 pages).
September 22, 2011: the paper S. H. Mousavi, A. B. Khanikaev, B. Neuner III, D. Y. Fozdar, T. D. Corrigan, P. W. Kolb, H. D. Drew, R. J. Phaneuf, A. Alù, and G. Shvets, “Suppression of long-range collective effects in meta-surfaces formed by plasmonic antenna pairs,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
September 21, 2011: the invited paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù,, “Homogenization of plasmonic metasurfaces as transmission-line loads,” has been published in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials’2010, Vol. 5, No. 2-3, pp. 90-96.
September 21, 2011: the invited paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Homogenization of quasi-isotropic metamaterials composed of dense arrays of magnetodielectric spheres,” has been published in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials’2010, Vol. 5, No. 2-3, pp. 56-63.
September 16, 2011: Andrea Alù has been awarded the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Young Investigator Award with project title "Metamaterials and Metasurfaces to Realize Cloaks, Anti-Cloaks, Isolators and Energy Concentrators".
September 12, 2011: the paper Y. Li, A. Alù, and H. Ling, “Investigation of directive radiation from a metal cut-wire array in the surface-wave and leaky-wave regions,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
September 6, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic tunneling of obliquely incident waves through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive uniaxial slab,” has been published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 28, No. 10, pp. 2362-2368.
September 2, 2011: our AFOSR-funded research on metamaterials has been highlighted in Signal Magazine.
August 26, 2011: the paper A. Alù, A. D. Yaghjian, R. A. Shore, and M. G. Silveirinha, “Causality relations in the homogenization of metamaterials,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 5, 054305 (16 pages).
August 24, 2011: the book chapter A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic cloaking: scattering cancellation without isolation,” has appeared in Introduction to Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals, A. Andreone, A. Cusano, A. Cutolo, V. Galdi, eds., World Scientific, pp. 263-283.
August 15, 2011: the paper A. Alù, “First-principles homogenization theory for periodic Metamaterial Arrays,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 7, 075153 (18 pages).
August 8, 2011: our recent realization and measurement of the first 3D cloak operating in free-space, in collaboration with the Applied Research Laboratories, has been highlighted in Physics World and PhysOrg.
July 26, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Atomically-thin surface cloak using graphene monolayers,” has been published in ACS Nano, Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 5855-5863.
July 25, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic tunneling of obliquely-incident waves through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive uniaxial slab,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Optical Society of America B.
July 6, 2011: Yang Zhao wins the 1st prize at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium Student Paper Competition with the paper Y. Zhao, A. Alù, "Broadband Circular Polarizers Using Plasmonic Metasurfaces"!
July 6, 2011: Pai-Yen Chen is a finalist in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium Student Paper Competition and Xing-Xiang Liu receives an honorable mention for their papers: P.Y. Chen, A. Alù, "Optical Nonlinear Metasurfaces Formed by Plasmonic Nanoantennas," X.X. Liu, A. Alù, "First-Principle Homogenization of Magnetodielectric Metamaterial Arrays".
July 5, 2011: the paper E. Kallos, C. Argyropoulos, Y. Hao, and A. Alù, “Comparison of frequency responses of cloaking devices under non-monochromatic illumination,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 84, No. 4, 045102 (8 pages).
July 5, 2011: Andrea Alù has been elected Senior Member of SPIE.
June 30, 2011: our paper on graphene cloaks is highlighted on the frontpage of Nanowerk.com.
June 29, 2011: the paper A. Alù, A. D. Yaghjian, R. A. Shore, and M. G. Silveirinha, “Causality relations in the homogenization of metamaterials,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
June 27, 2011: the URSI awards and the Issac Koga Gold Medal have been announced in the Radio Science Bulletin cover page.
June 21, 2011: the invited paper M. D. Guild, M. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic cloaking and scattering cancelation for electromagnetic and acoustic waves,” has been published in Wave Motion, Special Issue on Cloaking, Vol. 48, pp. 468-482.
June 21, 2011: the invited paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Analytical study of spherical cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been published in Wave Motion, Special Issue on Cloaking, Vol. 48, pp. 455-467.
June 20, 2011: the invited paper X X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Limitations and potentials of metamaterial lenses,” has been published in Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 5, 053509.
June 16, 2011: the invited paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Extremely anisotropic boundary conditions and their optical applications,” has been accepted for publication in Radio Science, Special Issue for URSI EMTS 2010.
June 12, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Atomically-thin surface cloak using graphene monolayers,” has been accepted for publication in ACS Nano.
June 7, 2011: the paper A. Alù, “First-principle homogenization theory for periodic metamaterial arrays,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
June 6, 2011: the paper A. Hosseini, D. Kwong, Y. Zhang, A. Alù, and R. T. Chen, Appl. Opt. 50, 1822 (2011) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No. 22.
June 1, 2011: Andrea Alù has become an Associate Editor of Optics Express.
June 1, 2011: the paper M. D. Guild, A. Alù, M. R. Haberman, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129, 1355 (2011) has been the most downloaded JASA paper in April 2011.
May 17, 2011: the paper E. Kallos, C. Argyropoulos, Y. Hao, and A. Alù, “Comparison of frequency responses of cloaking devices under non-monochromatic illumination,” has been accepted in Physical Review B.
May 16, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28, 1266 (2011) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No. 19.
May 9, 2011: our research has been highlighted in the U.S. Air Force of Scientific Research Office News article "Award-Winning Metamaterials Research to Shape Future Air Force Systems".
April 28, 2011: the invited paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Homogenization of plasmonic metasurfaces as transmission-line loads,” has been accepted for publication in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials’2010.
April 20, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Effects of shape and loading of optical nanoantennas on their sensitivity and radiation properties,” has been published in Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 1266-1274.
April 20, 2011: the paper A. Hosseini, D. Kwong, Y. Zhang, A. Alù, and R. T. Chen, “Modeling and experimental observation of on-chip two-dimensional far-field interference pattern,” has been published in Applied Optics, Vol. 50, No. 13, pp. 1822-1826.
April 18, 2011: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, N. Engheta, New J. Phys. 13, 033026 (2011) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No. 15.
April 19, 2011: the paper J. T. Costa, M. G. Silveirinha, and A. Alù, “Poynting vector in negative-index metamaterials,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 83, No. 16, 165120 (8 pages).
April 13, 2011: the invited paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, "Homogenization of quasi-isotropic metamaterials composed of dense arrays of magnetodielectric spheres," has been accepted for publication in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials’2010.
March 23, 2011: the paper A. Alù, G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, and M. Bloemer, "Plasmonic Brewster angle: broadband extraordinary transmission through optical gratings," has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, No. 12, 123902 (4 pages).
March 22, 2011: A. Alù is the recipient of the 2011 Issac Koga Gold Medal, for 'contributions to the theory and application of electromagnetic metamaterials, in particular the conception of plasmonic-based cloaking, optical nanocircuits, and anomalous propagation and radiation in metamaterials'! He will receive this triennial award next August 14 at the opening ceremony of the XXX URSI General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey.
March 21, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, and A. Alù, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105503 (2011) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 23, No. 11, March 21, 2011.
March 18, 2011: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Coupling and guided propagation along parallel chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 13, 033026 (23 pages).
March 18, 2011: the paper M. D. Guild, A. Alù, and M. Haberman, “Cancellation of acoustic scattering from an elastic sphere,” has been published in Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 1355-1365.
March 10, 2011: the paper A. Polemi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guidance properties of plasmonic nanogrooves: comparison between the effective index method and the finite integration technique,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 199-202.
March 8, 2011: the paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Effects of shape and loading of optical nanoantennas on its sensitivity and radiation properties,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Optical Society of America B.
March 8, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, and A. Alù, “Bistable and self-tunable negative index metamaterial at optical frequencies,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 106, No. 10, 105503 (4 pages).
March 5, 2011: Pai-Yen Chen has been selected as a finalist of the student paper competition at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium in Spokane, WA, July 3-8, 2011, with the paper P. Y. Chen, A. Alù, "Optical nonlinear metasurfaces formed by plasmonic nanoantennas".
March 5, 2011: Yang Zhao has been selected as a finalist of the student paper competition at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium in Spokane, WA, July 3-8, 2011, with the paper Y. Zhao, A. Alù, "Broadband circular polarizers using plasmonic metasurfaces".
March 5, 2011: Xing-Xiang Liu has received an honorable mention in the student paper competition at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium in Spokane, WA, July 3-8, 2011, with the paper X. X. Liu, A. Alù, "First-principle homogenization of magnetodielectric metamaterial arrays".
March 2, 2011: the paper A. Hosseini, D. Kwong, Y. Zhang, A. Alù, and R. T. Chen, “Modeling and experimental observation of on-chip two-dimensional far field interference pattern,” has been accepted for publication in Applied Optics.
March 2, 2011: the paper A. Polemi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guidance properties of plasmonic nanogrooves: comparison between the effective index method and the finite integration technique,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
February 24, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic tunneling through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive bi-layer,” has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications, Vol. 83, No. 8, 081105(R) (4 pages).
February 24, 2011: the invited paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Analytical study of spherical cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been accepted for publication in Wave Motion, Special Issue on Cloaking.
February 24, 2011: the paper J. T. Costa, M. G. Silveirinha, and A. Alù, "Poynting vector in negative-index metamaterials,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
February 22, 2011: the invited paper M. D. Guild, M. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic cloaking and scattering cancellation for electromagnetic and acoustic waves,” has been accepted for publication in Wave Motion, Special Issue on Cloaking.
February 21, 2011: the invited paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Limitations and potentials of metamaterial lenses,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Nanophotonics, Special Issue on Subwavelength Imaging.
February 17, 2011: the paper A. Alù, “Restoring the physical meaning of metamaterial constitutive parameters,” has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications, Vol. 83, No. 8, 081102(R) (4 pages).
February 17, 2011: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, N. Engheta, “Coupling and guided propagation along parallel chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.
February 11, 2011: the paper A. Alù, G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, and M. Bloemer, “Plasmonic Brewster angle: broadband extraordinary transmission through optical gratings,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
February 9, 2011: the paper P. Y. Chen, M. Farhat, and A. Alù, “Bistable and self-tunable negative index metamaterial at optical frequencies,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
February 9, 2011: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic tunneling through a single-negative slab paired with a double-positive bi-layer,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications.
February 8, 2011: the paper A. Alù, N. Engheta, “Optical metamaterials based on optical nanocircuits,” has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of IEEE.
January 31, 2011: the paper A. Alù, “Restoring the physical meaning of metamaterial constitutive parameters,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications.
January 27, 2011: the paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, A. Alù, and M. Bloemer, “Quenched optical transmission in ultrathin subwavelength plasmonic gratings,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 83, 035426 (11 pages).
January 12, 2011: the paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, M. J. Bloemer, D. de Ceglia, M. A. Vincenti, and A. Alù, “Transmission resonances in plasmonic metallic gratings” has been published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 253-264.
January 6, 2011: the paper M. D. Guild, A. Alù, and M. Haberman, “Cancellation of acoustic scattering from an elastic sphere,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Acoustical Society of America.
January 4, 2011: the invited feature paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Emission enhancement in a plasmonic waveguide at cut-off,” has been published in Materials, Special Issue on Next Wave of Metamaterials, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 141-152.

2010

December 29, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaked near-field scanning optical microscope tip for noninvasive near-field imaging,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, No. 26, 263906.
December 22, 2010: the paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, A. Alù, and M. Bloemer, “Quenched optical transmission in ultrathin, sub-wavelength, plasmonic gratings,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
December 20, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Emission enhancement in a plasmonic waveguide at cut-off,” has been accepted for publication in Materials, Special Issue on Next Wave of Metamaterials, as an invited feature paper.
December 2, 2010: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Optical nanoantenna arrays loaded with nonlinear materials,” Physical Review B, Vol. 82, 235405 (6 pages). (web)
December 1, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaked near-field scanning optical microscope tip for noninvasive near-field imaging,” has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
November 30, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Transformation-optics generalization of tunnelling effects in bi-layers made of paired pseudo-epsilon-negative/mu-negative media” has been published in Journal of Optics, Special Issue on Transformation Optics, Vol. 13, 024011 (8 pages).
November 9, 2010: the paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, M. J. Bloemer, and A. Alù, “Transmission resonances in sub-wavelength plasmonic gratings with narrow slits” has been accepted in Journal of the Optical Society of America B.
November 5, 2010: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Optical nanoantenna arrays loaded with nonlinearities,” has been accepted in Physical Review B.
October 31, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Selected applications of transformation electromagnetics,” has been published in Periodical of Advances in Science and Technology, Vol. 75, pp. 246-255.
October 29, 2010: A. Alù has been awarded an AFOSR Young Investigator Award for the research project "Novel Exotic Features of Metamaterials and their Electromagnetic Applications"!
October 19, 2010: the paper X. X. Liu, A. Alù, “Sub-wavelength leaky-wave optical nanoantennas: directive radiation from linear arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 82, No. 14, 144305 (12 pages).
October 17, 2010: the special issue of Sensors on Metamaterial for Sensing, guest edited by A. Alù, is accepting submissions.
October 15, 2010: the paper A. Alù, A. Kerkhoff, and D. Rainwater, “Plasmonic cloaking of cylinders: finite length, oblique illumination and cross-polarization coupling,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 12, No. 10, 103028.
October 1, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Selected applications of transformation electromagnetics,” has been accepted for publication in the Periodical of Advances in Science and Technology, Vol. 75, pp. 246-255.
September 30, 2010: the paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Sub-wavelength leaky-wave optical nanoantennas: directive radiation from linear arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
September 22, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, ““Power Scattering and Absorption Mediated by Cloak/Anti-Cloak Interactions: A Transformation-Optics Route towards Invisible Sensors,” has been published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 27, No 10, pp. 2132-2140.
September 21, 2010: the paper A. Alù, A. Kerkhoff, and D. Rainwater, “Plasmonic cloaking of cylinders: finite length, oblique illumination and cross-polarization coupling,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.
September 1, 2010: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Sub-wavelength elliptical patch antenna loaded with μ-negative metamaterials,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 2909-2919.
August 12, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, "Cloaking a receiving antenna or a sensor with plasmonic metamaterials,” has been published in Metamaterials, Special Issue for Metamaterials' 2009, Vol. 4, pp. 153-159 (invited paper).
August 10, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, ““Power Scattering and Absorption Mediated by Cloak/Anti-Cloak Interactions: A Transformation-Optics Route towards Invisible Sensors,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B.
July 26, 2010: the invited paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Transformation-Optics Generalization of Tunnelling Effects in Bi-Layers Made of Paired Epsilon-Negative/Mu-Negative Media,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, Special Issue on Transformation Optics.
July 16, 2010: A. Alù and a team of eight professors led by Prof. N. Engheta (University of Pennsylvania) have been awarded the ONR MURI on Optical Metamaterials with title "Large-Area 3D Optical Metamaterials with Tunability and Low-Loss"!
June 7, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Wireless at the Nanoscale: Optical Interconnects Using Matched Nanoantennas,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213902 (2010) has been selected to appear in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 21, No. 23.
May 24, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Wireless at the Nanoscale: Optical Interconnects Using Matched Nanoantennas,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, No. 21, 213902 (4 pages).
May 19, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “How Does Zero Forward-Scattering in Magnetodielectric Nanoparticles Comply with the Optical Theorem?,” has been published in Journal of Nanophotonics, Special Issue to commemorate the 70th birthday of Prof. Craig F. Bohren, Vol. 4, 041590 (17 pages) (invited paper).
May 10, 2010: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Dual-mode miniaturized elliptical patch antenna with μ-negative metamaterials,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 351-354.
May 9, 2010: Andrea Alù has received a 2010 Young Scientist Award from URSI Commission B: Electromagnetic Theory.
May 1, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and S. Maslovski “Power relations and a consistent analytical model for receiving wire antennas,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 1436-1448.
April 30, 2010: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Patterned metallic surfaces to realize 1-D, 2-D and 3-D ultrathin invisibility cloaks,” to be presented in Toronto, Canada, July 11-17, 2010 at the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation has received an Honorable Mention.
April 30, 2010: the paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic low-profile nanoantenna reflectors,” to be presented in Toronto, Canada, July 11-17, 2010 at the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation has received an Honorable Mention.
April 21, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, "Cloaking a receiving antenna or a sensor with plasmonic metamaterials,” has been published online in the special issue for Metamaterials' 2009 of Metamaterials (invited paper).
April 18, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Paradox of Zero Forward-Scattering in Magnetodielectric Nanoparticles in Connection with the Optical Theorem,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Nanophotonics, Special Issue to commemorate the 70th birthday of Prof. Craig F. Bohren (invited paper).
April 9, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Wireless at the Nanoscale: Optical Interconnects Using Matched Nanoantennas,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
April 8, 2010: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Dual-Mode Miniaturized Elliptical Patch Antenna with μ-Negative Metamaterials,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
April 5, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, "Comparison of waveguiding properties of plasmonic voids and plasmonic waveguides,” has been published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 114, No. 16, pp 7462–7471, (invited paper). [Up to 50 free e-prints of this paper are available for downaload on the journal website]
March 25, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “General class of metamaterial transformation slabs,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 81, No. 12, 125124 (10 pages).
March 19, 2010: the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Sub-wavelength elliptical patch antenna loaded with μ-negative metamaterials,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
March 11, 2010: the paper Y. Li, A. Alù, and H. Ling, "Simulation and measurement of surface wave propagation along a metal cut-wire array," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 179-182.
March 11, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, "Cloaking a receiving antenna or a sensor with plasmonic metamaterials,” has been accepted for publication in the special issue for Metamaterials' 2009 of Metamaterials (invited paper).
March 9, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, "Comparison of waveguiding properties of plasmonic voids and plasmonic waveguides,” has been accepted for publication in the special issue dedicated to Martin Moskovits in Journal of Physical Chemistry C (invited paper).
March 8, 2010: Fig. 19 in the paper S. Tricarico, F. Bilotti, A. Alù, and L. Vegni, “Plasmonic cloaking for irregular objects with anisotropic scattering properties,” Phys. Rev. E 81, 026602 (2010) has been selected to appear in Physical Review E Kaleidoscope.
February 19, 2010: the paper Y. Li, A. Alù, and H. Ling, "Simulation and measurement of surface wave propagation along a metal cut-wire array," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
February 18, 2010: the paper S. Tricarico, F. Bilotti, A. Alù, and L. Vegni, “Plasmonic cloaking for irregular objects with anisotropic scattering properties,” has been published in Physical Review E, Vol. 81, No. 2, 026602 (12 pages).
February 10, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Coaxial-to-waveguide matching with ε-near-zero ultranarrow channels and bends,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 328-339.
February 8, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “General class of metamaterial transformation slabs,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
January 29, 2010: Andrea Alù has received the NSF CAREER award 0953311 "CAREER: Sensing, Imaging and Energy Applications of Metamaterial Cloaks"!
January 29, 2010: the paper S. Tricarico, F. Bilotti, A. Alù, and L. Vegni, “Plasmonic cloaking for irregular objects with anisotropic scattering properties,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E.
January 18, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Power Scattering and Absorption Mediated by Cloak/Anti-Cloak Interactions: A Transformation-Optics Route towards Invisible Sensors,” has been posted on arxiv.
January 18, 2010: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta “Effect of Small Random Disorders and Imperfections on the Performance of Arrays of Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 12, 013015 (12 pages).
January 4, 2010: Fig. 1 from the paper A. Alù, “Mantle cloak: Invisibility induced by a surface,” Phys. Rev. B 80, 245115 (2009) has been selected to appear in Kaleidoscope.

2009

December 24, 2009: the paper A. Alù, “Mantle cloak: Invisibility induced by a surface,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 80, No. 24, 245115 (5 pages).
December 3, 2009: the paper A. Alù, “Effect of Small Random Disorders and Imperfections on the Performance of Arrays of Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.
November 30, 2009: the paper A. Alù, “Mantle cloak: Invisibility induced by a surface,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
November 29, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Power relations and a consistent analytical model for receiving wire antennas,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
November 19, 2009: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “A General Class of Metamaterial Transformation Slabs,” has been posted on arxiv.
November 1, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “On Certain Design Criteria for Nanoantennas in the Visible,” has been published in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Special Issue on Functional Nanophotonics and Nanoelectromagnetics, Vol. 6, No. 9, pp. 2009-2015, (invited paper).
October 12, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an all-optical metamaterial circuit board at the nanoscale,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 143902 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 20, No. 15.
October 6, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Verification of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 15, 153901, October 6, 2009.
September 30, 2009: Andrea Alù has become an Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
September 29, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an All-Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 14, 143902.
September 21, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-Chain Optical Nanotransmission Line for Low-Loss Ultra-Confined Light Beam,” Phys. Rev. B 80, 113101 (2009), has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 19, No. 21.
September 16, 2009: M. D. Guild has won the best student paper award at Auxetics 2009 with our paper M. D. Guild, M. R. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Acoustic Wave Scattering Cancellation Using Auxetic Materials and Layers with Negative Stiffness Inclusions,” Bolton, U.K.
September 14, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Verification of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies,” has been accepted in Physical Review Letters.
September 8, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-Chain Optical Nanotransmission Line for Low-Loss Ultra-Confined Light Beam,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 80, No. 11, 113101 (4 pages).
August 30, 2009: Mina Jean Hanna has joined our group as a new undergraduate research assistant.
August 24, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Envisioning an All-Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
July 31, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 043902 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 20, No. 5.
July 28, 2009: the paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, “Parallel-chain optical nanotransmission line for low-loss ultra-confined light beam,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
July 21, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, No. 4, 043902.
July 6, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233901 (2009), has been selected in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Vol. 19, No. 12.
July 6, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Coaxial-to-waveguide matching with ε-near-zero ultranarrow channels and bends,” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
July 5, 2009: Xing-Xiang Liu has joined our group as a new graduate student.
June 29, 2009: the paper D. A. Powell, A. Alù, B. Edwards, A. Vakil, Y. S. Kivshar, and N. Engheta, "Nonlinear control of tunneling through an ε-near-zero channel," has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 79, No. 24, 245135 (5 pages).
June 26, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” Phys. Rev. B 79, 235412 (2009) has been selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, Vol. 19, No. 26.
June 19, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Boosting molecular fluorescence with a plasmonic nanolauncher,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
June 15, 2009: Pai-Yen Chen has joined our group as a new graduate student.
June 12, 2009: the paper D. A. Powell, A. Alù, B. Edwards, A. Vakil, Y. S. Kivshar, and N. Engheta, "Nonlinear control of tunneling through an ε-near-zero channel," has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
June 10, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 79, No. 23, 235412 (12 pages).
June 8, 2009: a Viewpoint article by Prof. F. Javier Garcia de Abajo highlighting our recent paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233901 (2009) has been published in Physics, Vol. 2, No. 47!
June 8, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, No. 23, 233901.
April 29, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Guided propagation along quadrupolar chains of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
April 15, 2009: the news brief “Cloaked eye still sees,” highlighting our recent PRL paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has appeared in Science News!
April 9, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking a sensor,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
March 25, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “The quest for magnetic plasmons at optical frequencies,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 5723-5730, March 25, 2009.
March 24, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “The quest for magnetic plasmons at optical frequencies,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
March 4, 2009: the invited review paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic and metamaterial cloaking: physical mechanisms and potentials,” J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 10, 093002 (17 pages), 2008 has been selected in the Journal of Optics Highlights for 2008.
February 18, 2009: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Reflectionless sharp bends and corners in waveguides using epsilon-near-zero effects,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, No. 4, 044905 (4 pages).
February 17, 2009: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 3101-3114.
February 14, 2009: the paper G. Castaldi, I. Gallina, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloak/anti-cloak interactions,” has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
January 20, 2009: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical nanoswitch: an engineered plasmonic nanoparticle with extreme parameters and giant anisotropy,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 11, 013026 (14 pages).

2008

December 23, 2008: the paper B. Edwards, A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Reflectionless sharp bends and corners in waveguides using epsilon-near-zero effects,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics.
December 19, 2008: the paper A. Alù, N. Engheta, “Cloaking and transparency for collections of particles with metamaterial and plasmonic covers,” Opt. Expr. 15, 7578 (2007) has received the CST University Publication Award 2008.
December 1, 2008: one of the figures in A. Alù, and N. Engheta, Phys. Rev. B 78, 195111 (2008) has been selected to appear in the Physical Review B Kaleidoscope.
November 26, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Theory and potentials of multi-layered plasmonic covers for multi-frequency cloaking,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Focus Issue on Cloaking and Transformation Optics, Vol. 10, 115036 (15 pages).
November 24, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, Phys. Rev. B 78, 195111 (2008) has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 18, No. 21.
November 13, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “A Hertzian plasmonic nanodimer as an efficient optical nanoantenna,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, Vol. 78, No. 19, 195111 (6 pages).
November 13, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Engineered plasmonic nanoparticle with extreme parameters and giant anisotropy,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics.
November 12, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking mechanism with antiphase plasmonic satellites,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, No. 20, 205109 (9 pages).
October 27, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Effects of size and frequency dispersion in plasmonic cloaking,” has been published in Physical Review E, Rapid Communications, Vol. 78, 045602(R).
October 20, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Cloaking mechanism with 'antiphase' plasmonic ‘satellites’,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
October 16, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Theory and potentials of multi-layered plasmonic covers for multi-frequency cloaking,” has been accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics, Special Issue on Cloaking.
October 7, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “A Hertzian plasmonic nanodimer as an efficient optical nanoantenna,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
October 2, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Effects of size and frequency dispersion in plasmonic cloaking,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E, Rapid Communications.
September 26, 2008: A. Alù has received the Metamaterials Reviewer Award 2008 for 'outstanding contribution to the peer-review process' by the journal Metamaterials.
September 23, 2008: the invited paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “On certain design criteria for nanoantennas in the visible,” , has been accepted for publication in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Special Issue on Functional Nanophotonics and Nanoelectromagnetics.
September 17, 2008: A. Alù has won the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics assigned by the University of Siena.
September 15, 2008: the invited paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dispersion characteristics of metamaterial cloaking structures,” has been published in Electromagnetics, Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 464-475.
August 19, 2008: the invited review paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic and metamaterial cloaking: physical mechanisms and potentials,” has been published in Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, Vol. 10, No. 9, 093002 (17 pages).
August 11, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Infrared and optical invisibility cloak with plasmonic implants based on scattering cancellation,” Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 075107 (7 pages).
August 11, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dynamical theory of artificial optical magnetism produced by rings of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 085112 (10 pages).
August 1, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Input impedance, nanocircuit loading, and radiation tuning of optical nanoantennas,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, No. 4, 043901, July 21, 2008, has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 18, No. 5.
July 31, 2008: the invited review paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Plasmonic and metamaterial cloaking: physical mechanisms and potentials,” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics.
July 24, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical tunneling through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic channels and sharp bends,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 035440 (6 pages).
July 23, 2008: the paper A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Transmission-line analysis of ε-near-zero (ENZ)-filled narrow channels,” has been published in Physical Review E, Vol. 78, 016604 (10 pages).
July 21, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Input impedance, nanocircuit loading, and radiation tuning of optical nanoantennas,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, No. 4, 043901.
July 17, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dynamical theory of artificial optical magnetism produced by rings of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
July 11, 2008: a preprint of the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “A Hertzian plasmonic nanodimer as an efficient optical nanoantenna,” has been posted on arxiv.
July 3, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Infrared and optical invisibility cloak with plasmonic implants based on scattering cancellation,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
July 3, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dielectric sensing in ε-near-zero narrow waveguide channels,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 045102 (5 pages).
June 20, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical tunneling through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic channels and sharp bends,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.
June 10, 2008: the paper A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Transmission-line analysis of ε-near-zero (ENZ)-filled narrow channels,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E.
June 4, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Input impedance, nanocircuit loading, and radiation tuning of optical nanoantennas,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
June 1, 2008: the paper F. Bilotti, A. Alù, and L. Vegni, "Design of miniaturized metamaterial patch antennas with µ-negative loading,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 1640-1647.
May 17, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Robustness in design and background variations in metamaterial/plasmonic cloaking,” has been published in Radio Science.
May 15, 2008: a preprint of the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Dynamical theory of artificial optical magnetism produced by rings of plasmonic nanoparticles,” has been posted on arxiv.
May 14, 2008: a preprint of the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical tunneling through arbitrarily-shaped plasmonic channels and sharp bends,” has been posted on arxiv.
April 30, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Optical nanocircuit loads for tuning the scattering response of nanoantennas,” has been published in Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, pp. 307-310.
April 30, 2008: the News and Views article "Optical cloaking: A many-layered solution" from A. Jenkins, featuring our recent Phys. Rev. Lett. paper on multi-layered plasmonic cloaks has appeared in Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, p. 270.
April 30, 2008: the News and Views article "Plasmonics: Engineering optical nanoantennas" from Prof. M. L. Brongersma, Stanford University, featuring our recent Nat. Phot. paper on loaded optical nanoantennas has appeared in Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, pp. 270-272.
April 22, 2008: a preprint of the paper A. Alù, M. G. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Transmission-line analysis of ε-near-zero (ENZ)-filled narrow channels,” has been posted in arxiv.
April 18, 2008: the paper A. Alù, M. Young, and N. Engheta, “Design of nanofilters for optical nanocircuits,” Physical Review B, Vol. 77, 144107 (12 pages), April 9, 2008, has been selected to appear in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 17, No. 16.
March 21, 2008: the paper M. G. Silveirinha, A. Alù, J. Li, and N. Engheta, “Nanoinsulators and nanoconnectors for optical nanocircuits,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, 064305 (24 pages).
March 18, 2008: the paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Multifrequency optical invisibility cloak with layered plasmonic shells,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, 113901.

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