David Smith Selected for NASA NIAC Fellowship
Award will support the pursuit of robotically assembled metamaterials in space for radar systems enabling long-range situational awareness.
Metamaterials
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.
Research Areas
- Electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces
- Quantum nanophotonics
- Plasmonics
- Nonlinear, transformation and fiber optics
- Electromagnetic cloaking
Highlights
Meet the Duke Startup Trying to Put a Satelitte in Space
Backed by more than $7 million in seed funding, a Duke University spinout is hoping to launch a new generation of satellite cameras into space in the next few years.
Trapping Light on Thermal Photodetectors Shatters Speed Records
Metasurfaces featuring tailored silver nanocubes could allow thermal photodetectors to approach speeds akin to traditional digital cameras.
Associated Faculty
Steven Cummer, Ph.D.
Associate Chair, William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Natalia Litchinitser, Ph.D.
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
David R. Smith
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Other Research Specialties
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