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David Smith studies metamaterials and how they turn our understanding of physics inside out
Duke ECE is home to world leaders in metamaterials and metasurfaces. Our faculty members demonstrated the world’s first negative refractive index metamaterial in 2000, and in 2006 a Duke ECE engineer invented a metamaterial “invisibility cloak” that renders objects undetectable at microwave frequencies. Currently, a $7.5 million DoD investment funds our proving ground for acoustic metamaterials, while eight companies—and counting—have grown from our research.
David Smith studies metamaterials and how they turn our understanding of physics inside out
Duke engineers to lead $7.5 million Department of Defense project to create a “super camera” that can capture and process a wide range of light’s properties
Two metamaterials researchers at Duke are manipulating light at the highest frequencies currently possible to enable applications such as precision agriculture and high-bandwidth communications
Associate Chair, William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Chair, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of ECE
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