Metamaterial and Plasmonic Devices • S. Rhea, “Photonics Initiative Director Andrea Alù Selected as a Finalist for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists,” May 30, 2018. • T. Domi, “High-Sensitivity Microsensors on the Horizon,” May 14, 2018. • F. M. Ellis, “Simplified Symmetry for Electronics,” Nature Electronics, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 268-269, May 14, 2018. • “A Microscopic Roundabout for Light,” May 5, 2018. • S. Rhea, “The Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY’s Photonics Initiative Wins $7.5 Million in Research Funding from the U.S. Department of Defense,” April 10, 2018. • S. Rhea, “$7.5 Million Department of Defense Grant to the Graduate Center’s ASRC,” April 10, 2018. • P. Ball, “Focus: Wave Trick May Lead to Wireless Charging at a Distance,” Physics, Vol. 11, No. 33, April 2, 2018. • S. Rhea, “Breakthrough in Circuit Design Makes Electronics More Resistant to Damage and Defects,” CUNY Press Release, Science Daily, Mar. 9, 2018. • T. Wogan, “Physicists Beat Lorentz Reciprocity for Microwave Transmission,” Physics World, Feb. 22, 2018. • S. Rhea, “Breakthrough in Controlling Light Transmission,” CUNY Press Release, Phys.org, Feb. 9, 2018. • H. Krishnaswamy, N. Reiskarimian, and A. Nagulu, “Coupled Resonators Give Direction,” Nature Electronics, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 94-95, February 8, 2018. • “Engineers Invent Breakthrough Millimeter-Wave Circulator IC,” TechExplore, October 6, 2017. • M. Nardone, “Un Materiale Mai Visto per Superscarpe e Robot Soffici,” Ansa, February 21, 2017. • T. Wogan, “Blocking the Symmetry of Motion,” Physics World, Feb. 15, 2017. • “Innovative Nonreciprocal Mechanical Metamaterials Could Add Value to Newer Mechanical Devices,” AZO Materials, February 14, 2017. • Nature podcast, February 15, 2017. • S. Zaragoza, “New Mechanical Metamaterials Can Block Symmetry of Motion, Findings Suggest,” UT Austin Press Release, Feb. 13, 2017. Also on phys,org, Space Daily, Science Daily. • “Andrea Alú awarded the ICO Prize 2016,” SPIE News, January 30, 2017. • “Andrea Alù to present Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science,” MRS Bulletin, Vol. 41, pp. 814- 815, November 2016. • D. Johnson, “Nanoantenna Changes Direction of Light and the Prospects of Optical Computing,” IEEE Spectrum, Nov. 18, 2016. • SPIE Newsroom video • “NSF Wants Engineering Researchers to Bend Rules (of Classical Physics),” NSF Press Release No. 16-093, August 15, 2016. • S. Zaragoza, “Engineers Receive $22.8 Million from DOD for Cross-Disciplinary Projects,” UT Austin Press Release, July 18, 2016. • K. Wright, “Bang a Gong,” Physics, June 2, 2016. • J. L. Miller, “A Nonreciprocal Antenna Speaks Without Listening,” Physics Today, Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 14-15, May 1, 2016. • R. Christensen, “UT Researchers Patent New Cloaking Technology,” Fox7, April 1, 2016. (video) • T. Wogan, “New Radio Antenna Avoids Unwanted Signals,” Physics World, March 29, 2016. • J. L. Miller, “An Antenna that Speaks Without Listening,” Physics Today, March 31, 2016. • M. Nardone, “Arriva Una Super Antenna per le Reti Wireless,” ANSA, March 30, 2016. • R. Retiwala, “UT Professor Develops New Antenna Design,” The Daily Texan, March 30, 2016. • M. Toohey, “UT Team Hopes Research Can Enhance Radio Antennae Performance,” Austin American Statesman, March 21, 2016. • R. Chirgwin, “Better Mobe Antennas a Stretch Goal for Radiocomm Boffins,” The Register, March 15, 2016.  • S. Zaragoza, “UT Austin Engineers Design Next-Generation Non-Reciprocal Antenna,” ErukAlert, March 14, 2016. • L. Fleet, “Double Up,” Nature Physics 12, 111 (2016). • P. Wiserman, “Two Texas Engineers Receive 2016 TAMEST Awards,” TAMEST Press Release, December 8, 2015. • K. Nutt, “TAMEST Announces Recipients of the 2016 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Awards and Celebrates the Awards' 10th Anniversary,” TAMEST Press Release, December 8, 2015. • “Featured Engineer: Andrea Alù”, EE Web, October 27, 2015. • J. Edwards, “Four Research Projects That Could Double Wireless Bandwidth,” Network World, September 2, 2015. • R. Nappi, “Ad Austin mi hanno dato fiducia. E sono stato ‘premiato’ con un milione di dollari,” Il Fatto Quotidiano, August 22, 2015. • I Mazzitelli, “Le Eccellenze del Nostro Paese,” Vanity Fair, May 13, 2015. • G. Colletti, “Un Milione di Dollari alla Ricerca, Ricercatore Italiano Vince Premio Waterman,” La Repubblica, April 24, 2015. • A. Price, “UT Scientist, 36, Wins $1M National Research Award,” Austin Statesman, April 17, 2015. • Patrick Wiseman, “UT Austin Engineer Wins $1 Million National Science Foundation Award,” UT Austin website, April 17, 2015. Also CSE, ECE press releases. • Robert Margetta, “The National Science Foundation names engineering researcher Andrea Alú its Alan T. Waterman awardee for 2015,” NSF website, April 17, 2015. • M. Morello, “Smartphone, così raddoppierà la velocità della connessione dati,” Panorama, November 30, 2014. • T. Simonite, “Simple Circuit Could Double Cell Phone Data Speeds,” MIT Technology Review, November 24, 2014. • L. Luca, “Mantelli invisibili, medicina e missioni spaziali: a Houston il "festival" dei ricercatori italiani all'estero,” La Repubblica, November 16, 2014. • M. Byrne, “This Tiny Device Could Free Up Crowded Cell Networks,” Motherboard, November 14, 2014. • M. Nardone, “Addio Telefonate Interrotte, Con Una Nuova Tecnologia,” Ansa.it, November 10, 2014. Also on La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera. • S. Zaragoza, “Lighter, Cheaper Radio Wave Device Could Transform Telecommunications,” UT Austin Press Release, Phys.org, November 10, 2014. • Andrea Alù on UT Austin Game Changers, ESPN Longhorn Network, November 2, 2014. • A. Sihvola, “Device physics: Power inequality,” Nature Physics, in press.S. Wills, “A Meta-Mirror for Nonlinear Optics,” Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 25, No. 9, p. 11, September 2014. • C. Jones, “Engineering researchers build nonlinear mirror,” Daily Texan, July 14, 2014. • J. Wallace, “Nonlinear thin-film optical mirror frequency-doubles low-power light reflected from it,” Laser Physics World, July 3, 2014. • S. Zaragoza, “Researchers Invent ‘Meta Mirror’ to Help Advance Nonlinear Optical Systems”, UT Austin Press Release, July 2, 2014. • ”Highly non-linear metamaterials for laser technology - a million times better”, Nanowerk.com, July 2, 2014 • C. Q. Choi, “A One-Way Street for Sound,” Scientific American, Vol. 310, No. 4, p. 31, April 1, 2014. • M. Largey, “Creating a One-Way Mirror for Sound,” Radio Interview on KUT News, Aired nationally on the NPR program ‘Here & Now’, February 28, 2014. • C. Winter, “One-Way Sound Transmission,” Bloomberg Businessweek, February 20, 2014. • Longhorn Extra: Campus Minute, February 6, 2014. • A. Hamze, “New device offers engineering breakthrough,” The Daily Texan, February 5, 2014. • A. Wood, “World first acoustic circulator puts sound on a one-way street,” Gizmag, February 5, 2014. • A. Dangelis, “Device Lets You Hear Without Being Heard,” Discovery News, February 5, 2014. • M. Passarello, “La macchina per il suono «a senso unico»,” Il Sole 24 Ore, February 5, 2014. • V. Woollaston, “The Audio invisibility cloak: One-way sound device could let spies listen in on people without being heard,” Daily Mail, February 2, 2014. • “Da Invisible a Inaudibile,” La Repubblica, January 31, 2014. • T. Commissariat, “Sound follows one direction,” Physics World, January 31, 2014. • T. Ghose, “Spies, Take Note: Scientists Create One-Way Sound Machine,” NBC News, Live Science, January 30, 2014. • B. Ferreria, “To Eliminate Feedback, Engineers Invented the Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass,” Motherboard, January 31, 2014. • S. Zaragoza, “Engineers Build First Nonreciprocal Acoustic Circulator: A One-Way Sound Device,”  UT Austin Press Release, Phys.org, Science Daily, January 30, 2014 • S. Cummer, “Selecting the Direction of Sound Transmission,” Science, Vol. 343, No. 6170, pp. 495-496, January 31, 2014. • R. Suba, “Harry Potter's invisibility cloak can do analog computing, claim researchers,” Tech Times, January 18, 2014. • J. Hecht, “Analog Computing with Metamaterials,” Laser Focus World, January 12, 2014. • P. Beart, “'Invisibility' Materials Could Perform Calculations As Well,” French Tribune, January 11, 2014. • A. Sihvola, “Enabling Optical Analog Computing with Metamaterials,” Science, Vol. 343, No. 6167, pp. 144-145, January 10, 2014. • “Researchers Lay Out Theory for Metamaterials that Act as an Analog Computer,” UT Austin Press Release, Phys.org, Nanowerk, AzoNano. • J. Aoron, “First Light-Bending Calculator Designed with Metamaterials,” New Scientist, January 10, 2014. • J. Emspak, “'Invisibility' Materials Could Do Computer's Work,” Live Science, January 10, 2014. • “Computer analogici: dai materiali dei mantelli dell'invisibilità una tecnologia per elaborare la luce,” La Repubblica, January 10, 2014. • “Dai mantelli dell'invisibilità i nuovi computer,” ANSA, January 10, 2014. • D. Pile, “Magnets not needed,” Nature Photonics, Vol. 7, No. 11, pp. 848-849, Nov. 2013. • "Washington: The Optical Society Announces 17 Award Recipients for 2013," Laser Focus World, March 18, 2013. • J. Baxter, “Twisted layers,” Nature Photonics, Vol. 6, No. 8, p. 500, August 2012. • R. Boland, “Materially Altering Technology,” Signal Magazine, Sept. 2011. • "URSI Awards 2011 announced," Radio Science Bulletin, Vol. 337, cover page and p. 63, June 2011. • M. Lachance, “Award-Winning Metamaterials Research to Shape Future Air Force Systems,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research News, May 9, 2011. • AFOSR announces the 2010 YIP awards. • J. Stein Diamond "Discovering Scientific Gold in Metamaterials," Penn Engineering Alumni Magazine, Fall 2005. Cloaking and Invisibility • A. Khwaja, “UT Researchers Study the Possibilities of Invisibility,” Daily Texan, September 7, 2016. • S. Wills, “Probing the Limits of Cloaking,” Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 27, No. 9, p. 9, Sep. 1, 2016. • H. M. Lawrenz, “Invisibility Cloaks: Fact or Fiction?,” BioTechniques, August 16, 2016. • A. Nowogrodzki, “Now You See Me: True Invisibility Cloak Impossible to Build,” New Scientist, July 29, 2016. • S. Wills, “Probing the Limits of Broadband Cloaking,” Optics and Photonics News, July 6, 2016. • J. Amatulli, “We Probably Won’t Have Human Invisibility Cloaks, Because Physics,” Huffington Post, July 6, 2016. • M. Byrne, “You Will Never Be Invisible,” Motherboard, July 6, 2016. • F. MacDonald, “The Laws of Physics Make a Human Invisibility Cloak Pretty Much Impossible,” Science Alert, Business Insider, July 6, 2016. • S. Zaragoza, “Researchers Determine Fundamental Limits of Invisibility Cloaks,” UT Austin Press Release, July 5, 2016. • S. R. Lentz, “The Case of the Invisibility Cloak,” Tumble Science Podcast, June 17, 2016. • “Coating Cancels Acoustic Scattering from Odd-Shaped Objects,” AIP News, October 27, 2015. • R. Margetta, “Now You See It...,” NSF Discovery, August 18, 2015. • A. Indiano, “C’è Ma Non Si Vede,” Focus, June 20, 2015. • “Active Cloak is the Most Broadband to Date,” Photonics Spectra, March 2014. • J. Hanson, “The Invisible Man,” The Alcade, March 1, 2014. • T. Wogan, “Heat Cloaks Hide Objects in 3D,” Physics World, February 7, 2014. • E. Schechter, “How Far Away Are Active Invisibility Cloaks?,” Popular Mechanics, February 7, 2014. • V. Meewes, S. Thurmond, “Bright Ideas,” Austin Monthly, January 2014. • “Engineering a 3D Invisibility Cloak,” NSF Highlights, December 24, 2013. • S. Zaragoza, “Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloak,” UT Austin Press Release, Phys.org, December 19, 2013. • P. Beart, “Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloaking Device,” French Tribune, December 19, 2013. • R. Lakich, “Harry Potter Fans Get Ready: UT Researchers May Have Designed the Cloak of Invisibility,” Culture Map Austin, December 19, 2013. • R. Marcarelli, “First Battery-Powered 'Invisibility Cloak' Provides Broadband Protection,” Headline and Global News, December 19, 2013. • K. Jones, “5 of the Most Interesting Scientific Discoveries Coming Out of Texas in 2013,” Texas Monthly, December 11, 2013. • S. Afzal, “New 'Active' Invisibility Cloak Shields Across Light Frequencies,” Mashable, December 5, 2013. • E. Coyne, “UT researcher continues to break ground on the possibility of invisibility,” The Horn, November 15, 2013. • C. Moore, “UT Austin Scientists Transitioning Invisibility Cloaking Technology From Science Fiction To Reality,” Bio News Texas, November 12, 2013. • M. Thompson, "Disappearing Act," Time Magazine, November 19, 2013. • B. Terris, "We're Getting Really Close to Making a Superpower Reality," National Journal, November 19, 2013. • B. Dodson, "Oops! Invisibility cloaks actually make objects easier to see," Gizmag, November 13, 2013. • J. Morgan, “New 'invisibility cloak' type designed,” BBC News, November 11, 2013. • I. Randall, “Do cloaked objects shine brightly?,” Physics World, November 7, 2013. • C. Q. Choi, "Hey wizards! Those invisibility cloaks make you even more visible," NBC News, November 7, 2013. • N. Stoll, "Now you see it ... UT develops 'cloak of invisibility'," KXAN NBC, April 12, 2013. • Y. Wang, "Scientists Invent Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak—Sort Of," Time Magazine, March 31, 2013. • T. Wogan, 'Ultrathin 'metascreen' forms latest invisibility cloak,' Physics World, March 29, 2013. • "Invisibility Cloak? Wrong. You Need Invisibility Fishnets," Slate video, March 28, 2013. • J. Koebler, "Scientists Develop 'Invisibility Cloak'—With a Catch," U.S. News, March 27, 2013. • A. Dangelis, "Invisibility Screen Closer to Harry Potter Cloak," Discovery News, March 27, 2013. • C. Moskowitz, "Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak works (in a lab)," Fox News, March 27, 2013. • "Metascreen' Forms Ultra-Thin Invisibility Cloak," Science Daily, March 27, 2013. • B. Brumfield, "Scientists come a step closer to invisibility cloak," CNN, March 27, 2013. [Selected in the Top science stories of 2013] • A. Johnson, "Physicists make breakthrough on 'invisibility cloak'," CTV News, March 27, 2013. • "Il nuovo mantello dell'invisibilità," ANSA, March 26, 2013. • "È di un italiano il mantello dell’invisibilità," Il Secolo XIX, March 27, 2013. • T. Kemsley, "Harry Potter Cloak One Step Closer to Reality, Thanks to Texas Researchers," Nature World News, March 27, 2013. • C. Griffin, "Flexible, Ultra-thin Invisibility Cloak Now Exists: Harry Potter Fans Rejoice," Science World Report, March 27, 2013. • A. Boyle, "This invisibility cloak is thinner than anything in Harry Potter's closet," NBC News, March 26, 2013. • "Invisibility cloaks are almost a reality after scientists invent ultra-thin material that hides objects from microwaves," Daily Mail, March 26, 2013. • Andrea Alù at TEDx Austin, "On the Quest to Invisibility: Metamaterials and Cloaking", February 19, 2013. (TED website) • S. Cunningham, “Introducing Cloaking,” Youtube, April 24, 2012. • J. Palmer, “Metamaterial cloaking approach goes 3D,” Laser Focus World, March 2, 2012. • "Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak," PhysOrg, IoP News, Kurzweil, Jan. 26, 2012. • K. Drummond, “Invisibility’s Next Frontier: Scientists Cloak 3-D Objects,” Wired News, Jan. 26, 2012. • J. Palmer, “'Cloaking' a 3-D Object from All Angles Demonstrated,” BBC News, Jan. 26, 2012. (most shared and most read story of the day). • B. Yirka, "Researchers create first 3D invisibility cloak," PhysOrg.com, Aug. 11, 2011. • J. Cartwright, "3D cloak is first to work in free space," Physics World, Aug. 8, 2011. • D. Johnson, “Graphene Enables Invisibility Cloak,” IEEE Spectrum Nanoclast, July 7, 2011. • M. Berger, “A single layer of graphene is the thinnest possible invisibility cloak,” Nanowerk, June 30, 2011. • F. J. Garcia de Abajo, "Seeing without being seen," Physics, Vol. 2, No. 47, June 8, 2009. • L Senders, "Cloaked Eye Still Sees," Science News, April 15, 2009. • A. Jenkins, "Optical cloaking: A many-layered solution," Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, p. 270, May 2008. • “Shopping for cloaks,” Nature Materials, Vol. 6, p. 325, May 2007. • P. Ball, “Engineers devise invisibility shield,” Nature, Feb. 28, 2005. • S. Coyaud, "Uno Schermo di Tipo 'Gheminga'," Il Volo delle Oche, Radio 24, March 9, 2005: a radio interview on our work (rm, in Italian) • J. Hogan, "Ripples of Light Might Make You Invisible," New Scientist, March 5, 2005 • "Eat your cloak out, Harry Potter," The Guardian, March 3, 2005 • R. Highfield, "Not seeing is believing for invisibility cloak," The Daily Telegraph, March 1, 2005. • R. R. Britt, “New theory: how to make objects invisible,” LiveScience, Feb. 28, 2005. • J. Owen, “Invisibility shields planned by engineers,” National Geographic, Feb. 28, 2005. • R. R. Britt, "Now you see it, now you don't," MSNBC, Febuary 28, 2005. Optical Nanocircuits and Nanoantennas • L. Zyga, "Meta-Transmitarray Offers Unprecedented Control of Light on Subwavelength Scales," Phys.org, May 30, 2013. • K. Tsakmakidis, “Optical nanocircuits,” Nature Materials, Vol. 12, p. 178, Feb. 20, 2013 • P. Nordlander, “The Dark Side of the Ring,” Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, pp. 76-77, Jan. 27, 2013. • M. L. Brongersma, "Plasmonics: Engineering optical nanoantennas," Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, p. 270-272, May 2008. • P. Schewe, and B. Stein, "Circuit elements for optical frequencies," Physics News Update, AIP Bulletin of Physics News, No. 737-1, July 14, 2005. • P. Schewe, and B. Stein, "Two-Dimensional Light," Physics News Update, AIP Bulletin of Physics News, No. 770-1, March 23, 2006. • J. Tyrrell, "Simulations shine light on optical wire," IOP Optics.org, November 19, 2007. • G. Lester, "A Beam of Light on a Path of Gold to a Miniaturized World: Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements," University of Pennsylvania Office of University Communications Press Release, September 27, 2005. • "Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements," Science Daily, Sept. 27, 2005. • "A Beam of Light on a Path of Gold to a Miniaturized World: Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements," Nanotechnology Now, September 28, 2005. • "Electronics Run Using Light Instead of Electricity," Azonano, September 28, 2005.