Press On Our Research

• Transformation optics, Photonics spectra, May 2010. *** new***
Media response to our paper "Experimental observation of the trapped rainbow". The paper initiated
a lively discussion on the Web with hundreds of postings. It can be followed by googling
"rainbow trapped for the first time". Some of the postings are cited below:
• Scientists managed to trap a rainbow (in Russian), izvestia.ru, 19 January 2010. *** new***
• A rainbow has been trapped (in Russian), kp.ru, 19 January 2010. *** new***
• Rainbow trapped for the first time, WordPress.com, 1 December 2009. *** new***
• Tapering Waveguide Captures a Rainbow, ScienceStage.com, 28 November 2009. *** new***
• Rainbow Trapped for First Time, Using Convex Lens ..., tech-news-daily.info, 27 November 2009. *** new***
• Rainbow trapped for the first time, NewScientist.com, 26 November 2009. *** new***
  New Scientist qualified the "trapped rainbow" report as one of the "Top 10 physics stories of 2009"
• La luz de un arco iris atrapada en el aire entre dos películas de oro nanométricas, FrancisTheMuleNews.WordPress.com,
  25 November 2009. *** new***

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• Invisibility Uncloaked: In the race to make things disappear, scientists gain ground on science fiction, by Charles Petit,
  Science News, 21 November 2009. *** new***
• Better living through plasmonics: Mixing light with nanotechnology could help treat cancer and build faster computers,
  by Jenny Lauren Lee, ScienceNews.org, 7 November 2009. *** new ***
• PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: METAMATERIALS AND TRANSFORMATION OPTICS, LaserFocusWorld.com, 1 October 2009. *** new ***
Media response to our collaborative (with Norfolk State and Cornell Universities) demonstration of spaser-based nanolaser:
• Nanolasers Sneak Past Diffraction Limits, by Yvonne Carts-Powell, Optics and Photonics News, October 2009. *** new ***
• Birth of the nanolaser, Nature Photonics, October 2009. *** new ***
• The Spaser Nanolaser, IEEE Spectrum, October 2009. *** new ***
• Demonstration of a spaser-based nanolaser, NanoTechBIZZ.com, 16 August 2009. *** new ***
• Nanolaser Key To Future Optical Computers and Technologies, RedOrbit.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• Nanolaser key to future optical computers, RDMag.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• New nanolaser key to future optical computers and technologies, Purdue News, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
  • bio-medicine.org, 16 August 2009. *** new ***
  • FirstScience.com, 16 August 2009. *** new ***
  • ScienceCentric.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
  • ScienceDaily.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
  • MediaNewswire.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
  • PhotonicsOnline.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• New Spaser-Based Nanolaser for Future Optical Technologies, technology.am, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• The Smallest Laser Ever Made, TechnologyReview.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• World's tiniest laser paves way for optical computing, TGDaily.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• World's Smallest Laser, The Spaser, Unveiled, MedGadget.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• World Smallest Laser : 44 Nanometer Diameter Spaser, NextBigFuture.com, 16 August 2009. *** new ***
• Spaser development enables laser/chip integration, EETimes.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• New nanolaser produced, The Hindu, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• Wicked tiny laser could radically alter computers, sensors, imaging, NetworkWorld.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• 'Spaser' Nanolaser Realized, photonics.com, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• 'Spaser' team's work could enable smallest-ever laser, SPIE News, 17 August 2009. *** new ***
• Researchers herald optical-computing breakthrough, PCPro.co.uk, 18 August 2009. *** new ***
• World's smallest laser unveiled, Nature News, 18 August 2009. *** new ***
• Tiniest Nanolaser Key to Future Optical Computers , ScientificComputing.com, 18 August 2009. *** new ***
• Cornell quantum dots make world's tiniest nanolaser, LaserFocusWorld.com, 18 August 2009. *** new ***
• World’s Smallest Laser Announced, MedTechInsider.com, 18 August 2009. *** new ***
• Thinnest nanolaser promises super computers, GizmoWatch.com, 18 August 2009. *** new ***
• The Smallest Laser Ever Made, NILT Nano Newsletter, August 2009. *** new ***
• Tiniest Laser Developed -- Confirming Spaser Concept , 2physics.com, August 22, 2009. *** new ***
• Scientists build the smallest laser ever using a hybrid nanoparticle, Nature, 460, 1056, 27 August 2009. *** new ***
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• Ideal Focus, NEWS FEATURE: NATURE, V. 459, P. 504, 28 May 2009.
Media response to our work on broadband optical cloaking:
• Large Broadband Invisibility Cloak for Visible Light, 2physics, June 6, 2009.
• Cloaking Made Simpler, but Invisible Humans Not Yet a Reality, Scientific American, May 28, 2009.
• Cloak Has Tapered Waveguide, photonics.com, May 20, 2009.
• Invisibility Just got Easier with Tapered Waveguide Technology, azom.com (A to Z of Materials), May 21, 2009.
• Tapered waveguide makes invisibility cloaks more realistic and simple, gizmowatch.com, May 21, 2009.
• New 'Broadband' Cloaking Technology Is Easy To Manufacture, redorbit.com, May 21, 2009.
• New type of invisibility device casts a wider cloak, rdmag.com, May 21, 2009.
• Bigger, better invisibility cloak appears, techradar.com, May 21, 2009.
• Simpler Optical Invisibility Developed, nextbigfuture.com, May 21, 2009.
• Scientists unveil simpler-to-manufacture 'broadband' cloaking technology :
  • news.yahoo.com, May 21, 2009.
  • dailyindia.com, May 21, 2009.
  • bignewsnetwork.com, May 21, 2009.
  • China National News, May 21, 2009.
  • Malasia Sun, May 21, 2009.
• New 'broadband' cloaking technology simple to manufacture:
  • nanotech-now.com, May 20, 2009.
  • physorg.com, May 20, 2009.
  • insciences.org, May 20, 2009.
  • nanovip.com, May 21, 2009.
  • sciencedaily.com, May 21, 2009.
  • sciencecentric.com , May 21, 2009.
  • supercomputingonline.com, May 20, 2009.
  • Physics News, May 21, 2009.
  • Purdue News, May 21, 2009.
• Simplified Cloaking Tech Can Cloak Bigger Objects, insidetech.com, May 21, 2009.
• Experts Create New Class of Cloaking Devices, Softpedia, May 21, 2009.
• Scientists Simplify Cloaking Tech, Can Cloak Bigger Objects, Daily Tech, May 21, 2009.
• Invisibility cloaks spread out, EE Times, May 22, 2009.
• ‘Star Trek’ Style Invisibility Cloaking A Step Closer, x-journals.com, May 22, 2009.
Media response to our paper Optical cloaking with metamaterials, Nature Photonics, v.1, pp.224-27 (2007):
• Invisibility cup, Nature Photonics, April 2007.
• Engineers create 'optical cloaking' design for invisibility, Nanotechnology Now, April 2, 2007; see also:
  • http://www.physorg.com
  • http://www.photonicsonline.com
  • http://www.sciencedaily.com
  • http://www.reliableplant.com
  • http://www.huliq.com
  • http://www.technologynewsdaily.com
  • http://www.cio.com
  • http://www.ccnmag.com
  • http://www.spacedaily.com
  • http://www.tmcnet.com
  • http://www.daylife.com
• It's Cloaking But Not As We Know It, gadgetspy.co.uk, April 3, 2007.
• 'Optical Cloaking' Design Created for Invisibility, photonics.com, April 3, 2007.
• Engineers Bring 'Invisibility' One Step Closer to Reality, redorbit.com, April 2, 2007; Digg/news
• Technology research: Cloaking device could render objects invisible, tgdaily.com, April 2, 2007.
• Purdue research reveals scientific keys to possible invisibility, optical cloaks, purdueexponent.org, April 3, 2007.
• Nanotechnology bringing Potter's invisibility cloak closer to reality, Yahoo! News, April 3, 2007; see also:
  • http://news.sawf.org
  • http://www.zeenews.com
  • http://www.southasianews.com
• Nanotechnology optical cloaking design for invisibility, Nanowerk, April 2, 2007.
• Theoretical cloaking device is created, United Press International, April 3, 2007; see also:
  • http://www.imedinews.ge/en
  • http://www.postchronicle.com
  • http://science.netscape.com
• Boffins show off invisibility cloaking research, pcauthority.com.au, April 4, 2007.
• Harry Potter and science mix, news.com.au, April 7, 2007.
• Invisibility Cloak Step Closer To Reality, newswire.co.nz, April 6, 2007.
• Nanotech researchers report advances, EE Times, April 6, 2007.
• Another Star Trek 'invention' from Purdue, Network World, April 5, 2007.
• Optical cloaking… we’re almost there (sort of), Mysterious Unverse, April 2007.
• Theoretical design bends light around object - One step toward creating
  an "optical cloaking" device, What's Next In Science & Technology, April 3, 2007.
• Scientists From Purdue University Developed Cloaking Device, HT Lounge, April 3, 2007.
• Invisibility is now one step closer, InfoNIAC, April 2, 2007.
• Optical technology could render cars, aircraft or your mother-in-law invisible, Network World, April 3, 2007.
• Harry Potter's invisibility cloak is in our grasp: scientists, thewest.com.au, April 6, 2007.
• Scientists spot invisibility cloak on horizon, Daily News & Analysis, April 7, 2007.
• A real invisibility cloak in the offing, The Hindu Business Line, April 7, 2007.
• How to Make an Object Invisible, Technology Review, April 11, 2007.
• Discovery of invisibility (in Russian), Washington ProFile, April 12, 2007.
• Yet another Russian Scientist has found a way to render
  objects invisible (in Russian), newsru.com, April 12, 2007.
• A technology of optical invisibility has been developed (in Russian), Daily Digital Digest, April 12, 2007.
• Potter's magic wearing thin, The Daily Telegraph, April 17, 2007.
• Scientists close to Potter-style 'invisibility cloak', ABC News, April 6, 2007.
• "Optical Cloaking" For Invisibility, Iran Daily, April 5, 2007.
• Cloaking device makes colour red invisible, Discovery Channel, April 4, 2007.
• Clock ticking away for 'cloak of invisibility', The Hindu, April 29, 2007.
• Scientists created "invisibility hat" (in Russian), Moskovskij Komsomolets, April 24, 2007.
• Scientists are seeking ultimate vanishing act, The Star-Ledger, May 15, 2007.
• Light Fantastic: Flirting With Invisibility, The New York Times, June 12, 2007.
• Physicists thought up an "invisibility hat" (in Russian), Echo of the planet, No. 18-19, May 2007.
• Nano-Materialien sollen unsichtbar machen, GEO Magazin, No. 6, 2007.
• Their Deepest, Darkest Discovery, Washington Post, February 20, 2008.
• Harry Potter invisibility cloak a step closer to reality, The Telegraph, Oct 16, 2008.
  
• Disappearing act: The invisibility cloak that will be ready in five years, Daily Mail, Oct 17, 2008.
  
Media response to our work in the field of transformation optics:
• Transformation Optics May Usher in a Host of Radical Advances, The A to Z of Nanotechnology, 2008.
  
• New Transformation Optics to Harness Nanotechnology to Radically Advance Optical Technologies, The A to Z of Materials, 2008.
  
• Transformation Optics as an Industrial Revolution, softpedia.com, 2008.
  
• New research field promises radical advances in optical technologies, eScienceNews.com, Oct 16, 2008.
  
• Science of invisibility's giant leap forward, The Toronto Star, Oct 25, 2008.
  
• An ‘invisibility cloak’ for tsunamis?, msnbc.com, Oct. 26, 2008.
  
• Invisibility Cloak And Ultra-powerful Microscopes: New Research Field Promises Radical Advances In Optical Technologies, Science Daily, Oct 17, 2008.
  
• An invisible cloak may be 5 years away using transformation optics, IDTechEx.com, Oct 21, 2008.
  
• Technology Toward Greater Transparency, The Daily Free Press, Feb. 10, 2009.
• The Object disappeared (in Russian), Expert Online, July 17, 2006.
• Physics And Progress, Physics News Update, March 16, 2007.
• Double-negative metamaterial edges towards the visible, physicsworld.com, March 16, 2007.
• Metamaterials have approached optical domain (in Russian), Elements, March 20, 2007.
• Nature Photonics - Cover Story, Nature Photonics, April, 2007.
• Into the red, Nature Photonics, April, 2007.
• Metamaterials Veer Toward the Visible, Optics and Photonics News, 18, 8-9, 2007.
• Purdue researchers develop material for better optics, communications, Military
  and Aerospace Electronics, January 2006.
• Meta-material promises better optics and communications, Medical Design, April 1 2006.
• Out of Sight: Physicists get serious about invisibility shields (the Nanorod
  metamaterial developed at our Lab is referred to on p.6), Science News Online, July 15, 2006.
• Surface plasmons: Enhanced nanoplasmonics, Nature Photonics.
• Photonic Frontiers: Metamaterials , Laser Focus World, July 1, 2006.
• All-optical modulator is capable of terahertz speeds, Laser Focus World, November 2006.
• Negative refraction goes optical, Physics Web, April 20, 2005.
• Nanorods could lead to 'superlenses', Nanotech Web, April 21, 2005.
• Obtaining Negative Refraction At Optical Wavelengths, High-Tech Materials Alert, May 6, 2005.
• Eine Superlinse erweitert die Möglichkeiten der Optik Rasche Fortschritte
  bei Materialien mit negativem Brechungsindex, NZZ Online, May 18, 2005 .
• Research and Development of Left-Handed Materials Continues, Photonics Spectra, October 3, 2005.
• First Negative-Index Refraction in the Near-Infrared, Physics News Update, November 30, 2005.
• Infrared Light Can Now Have Negative Refraction Index (in Russian), Elements, January 5, 2005.
• Shifting Light Into Reverse, Chemical and Engineering News, December 7, 2005.
• Nanoantennas Show Promise In Diagnostic Imaging, Medical and Diagnostic Imaging Technology Alert, September 17, 2004.
• Teeny antennas, Popular Science, January 2003.
• Nanotechnology creates ideal optical medium, EETimes.com, August 27, 2002.
• 'Nanoantennas' Could Bring Sensitive Detectors, Optical Circuits, Photonics.com, September 3, 2002.
• The Amazing Vanishing Transistor Act, IEEE Spectrum, October, 2002.
• Metal Nanoparticle Arrays Guide and Focus Light, Nanoparticle News, September, 2002.
• Nanotechnology creates ideal optical medium, Electronic Engineering Times, September 2, 2002.

Our Selected Review Articles and Books

• Electromagnetic Field Fluctuations and Optical Nonlinearities in Metal-Dielectric
  Composites (Physics Reports)
• Nonlinear Optics of Random Media: Fractal Composites and Metal-Dielectric Films”

Our Patents

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