2024: June 6, 2024: Andrea Alù has received the IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for seminal contributions to the field of photonic metamaterials and their applications. May 27, 2024: Our paper on reconfigurable all-optical computing metasurfaces has been published in Nature Communications. July 1, 2024: Andrea Alù has been shortlisted as nominee for the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize. May 24, 2024: Our paper on twist-induced hyperbolic shear metasurfaces for sound has been published in Physical Review X. March 28, 2024: Our paper on noninvasive glucose snsing has appeared in Physical Review Applied and featured in Physics. January 25, 2024: Andrea Alù has received the Optica Max Born Award for pioneering contributions to linear, nonlinear and nonreciprocal photonic metamaterials. {Optics & Photonics News] January 16, 2024: Our paper on coherent control of chaotic cavities with reflectionless scattering modes has been featured on the cover of Nature Physics. [News and Views, Press release] January 11, 2024: Andrea Alù has received the SPIE Mozi Award for outstanding discoveries, scientific and technical achievements, or inventions in the field of optics. January 10, 2024: Our paper on extreme polaritonics driven by lower symmetries has been published in Nature Reviews Materials, and featured on the cover. January 9, 2024: Our paper on passive, bias-free nonreciprocal metasurfaces driven by nonlinear quasi-bound states has been published in Nature Photonics and featured in a News and Views article. 2023: November 16, 2023: Andrea Alù has been selected as a 2023 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate. November 3, 2023: Our paper on complex frequency excitations to compensate loss and enhance resolution in metamaterial superlenses has been published in Physical Review X. {Physics Viewpoint] November 2, 2023: Our paper on coherent control of chaotic cavities with reflectionless scattering modes has been published in Nature Physics. [News and Views, Press release] August 16, 2023: Our paper on magneto-optics and tuning of van der Waals magnets using polaritons has been published in Nature. August 14, 2023: Our paper on time interfaces for broadband 'photon collisions' and coherent wave control has been published in Nature Physics. [News and Views, Press Release] August 9, 2023: Andrea Alù has received the 2023 IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, at the IEEE AP-S / URSI conference in Portland, OR. June 12, 2023: Andrea Alù, Dimitrios Sounas and Romain Fleury receive the 2021 Brillouin Medal at Phononics 2023 in Manchester, UK, for their work on non-reciprocal and topological phononics . April 19, 2023: Our paper on inverse design of nonlinear polaritonic metasurfaces has been published in ACS Photonics and featured on the cover. April 1, 2023: Our paper solving integral equations with optical metagratings has been published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured on the cover. 2022: November 9, 2022: Our paper on complex frequency excitations to break bounds on light scattering has been published in Physical Review Letters. November 9, 2022: Our paper on Floquet metamaterials has received an Annual Award of eLight for top downloads/citations. October 19, 2022: Our paper on tricking light with metamaterials has been published in Scientific American. [Press release] September 20, 2022: Our paper on topological transitions in twisted hyperbolic acoustic metasurfaces has been published in Applied Physics Leters, featured on the Cover and selected as Editor’s Pick. August 1, 2022: Our Perspective on diffractive nonlocal metasurfaces has been published in Laser and Photonics Reviews, and featured on the cover. July 18, 2022: Our paper on spin-orbit-locked polaritonic topological charges has been published in E-Light. [Press release] June 27, 2022: Our research on topological sound in Lego metasurfaces has been featured in Wired magazine. June 15, 2022: Our work on boundary-induced embedded eigenstates in a single resonator for advanced sensing has been published in ACS Photonics, and featured on the cover. May 22, 2022: Our paper on a chip-scale Floquet topological insulators for wireless systems has been published in Nature Electronics. [IEEE Spectrum, Phys.org, Press release] May 19, 2022: Our paper on Floquet metamaterials has been published in E-Light. [Nanowerk] April 29, 2022: Our paper on the analogue of Faraday rotation and nonreciprocity at time interfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters. March 22, 2022: Andrea Alù has been named CUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest academic honor within the City University of New York. [Press release] March 3, 2022: Two new DoD MURI awards for our group, on polariton chemistry and on giant nonlinearities in atomically tailored materials. March 2, 2022: Our paper on the stability bounds of superluminal active media has been published in Nature Communications. March 2, 2022: Our paper on radio-transparent antennas based on metasurface cloaks has been published in Nature Communications. February 23, 2022: Our paper on hyperbolic shear polaritons in monoclynic crystals has been published in Nature. [RedCube] February 19, 2022: Our paper on engineered nonlocal scatterers for compact wave-based analog computing has been published in Physical Review Letters and featured in Physics. January 10, 2022: Our paper on robust localized skyrmions induced by spoof magnetic plasmon resonances has appeared in Nature Communications. January 1, 2022: Andrea Alù is the new Editor-in-Chief of Optical Materials Express. Please submit your best work on optical and photonic materials to OMEx! 2021: December 1, 2021: Our paper on optomechanical dissipative solitons has been published in Nature. (News&Views) November 28, 2021: Our paper on ghost polaritons over calcite has been featured in Optcs in 2021, and selected for the front page image. November 16, 2021: Andrea Alù has been selected as a 2021 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. November 7, 2021: Our paper on efficient nonreciprocal mode transitions in spatiotemporally modulated acoustic metamaterials has been published in Science Advances. October 8, 2021: Our paper on topological phonon-polaritonic metasurfaces has been published in Science. October 7, 2021: Our paper on PT-symmetry and extreme energey transformations in time metamaterials has been published in Physical Review Letters. September 13, 2021: Our paper on broadband topological slow light has been published in Physical Review Letters. September 9, 2021: Our review paper on interface nano-optics using van der Waals polaritons has been published in Nature. (SharedIt) August 19, 2021: Our paper on nonlocal topological insulators has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. August 18, 2021: Our paper on ghost hyperbolic surface polaritons in calcite has been published in Nature (SharedIt, Phys.org) August 8, 2021: Our two-part paper on nonlinearity-induced nonreciprocity has been published in the IEEE Ttransactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. July 22, 2021: Our paper on an optomechanical resonator realizing a 2D topological insulator in synthetic space has been published in Optica. July 20, 2021: Andrea Alù has been named the 2021 Blavatnik National Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering. [Press release] July 19, 2021: Our paper on non-Foster acoustic radiation from an active piezoelectric transducer has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. July 2, 2021: Our paper on unitary transfer of excitation between mismatched resonant cavities using temporal switching has been published in Physical Review Letters. July 1, 2021: Our paper on a gain-free route to parity-time symmetry using evanescent waves has been published in Physical Review Letters. June 16, 2021: Andrea Alù has received the 2021 AAAFM-Heeger Award from the American Association for Advances in Functional Materials ‘for seminal contributions to the realization of engineered functional materials and metamaterials, and their applications in electromagnetics, photonics and acoustics’. June 4, 2021: Andrea Alù has been selected as a Finalist for the 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Physics and Engineering. June 4, 2021: Our paper on thermal metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review X, and featured in APS Physics Focus.and Nature Physics N&V [Press release] June 3, 2021: Our perspective paper on acoustic nonreciprocity has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, selected as editor’s pick, and highlighted in AIP SciLight. May 20, 2021: Our paper on directional modulation of exciton emission using dielectric nanospheres has been published in Advanced Materials, and featured on the Inside Front Cover. May 23, 2021: Our paper on enhanced light-matter interactions at photonic magic-angle topological transitions has been published in Applied Physics Letters, and selected as a Featured Article. May 10, 2021: Our paper on odd Willis coupling induced by broken time-reversal symmetry has been published in Nature Communications. [SharedIt} May 6, 2021: Our paper on near‐field imaging of higher‐order topological photonic states has been published in Advanced Materials, and featured on the cover. April 30, 2021: Our opinion paper on twistronics for photons has been published in Optical Materials Express, and selected as Editor’s Pick. April 29, 2021: Our paper on ultrafast optical switching and power limiting in intersubband polaritonic metasurfaces has been published in Optica. April 25, 2021: Robert Duggan and Zhicheng Xiao have succesfully defended their PhDs at UT Austin. April 14, 2021: Our paper on tailoring light with layered and moiré metasurfaces has been published in Trends in Chemistry, and featured on the cover. April 7, 2021: Andrea Alù has received the 2021 Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology ‘for seminal contributions to nano-optics, nano-photonics, plasmonics and phononics, including the discovery of giant non-reciprocity, non-linear phenomena, and enhanced light-matter interactions using nanostructured materials, metasurfaces and metamaterials’. March 22, 2021: Our paper on broadband field localization and nonlinearities in nonreciprocal and topological hotspots has been published in Physical Review Applied, and selected as Editors’Suggestion. March 18, 2021: Our paper on wavefront-selective Fano resonant metasurfaces has been published in Advanced Photonics and featured on the cover. [Press release] March 17, 2021: Our paper on efficient frequency-domain analysis of N-path time switched networks has been published in IEEE Transactions on on Circuits and Systems, and selected as the Paper Highlight of the Feb. 2021 issue. March 16, 2021: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of MRS ‘for .seminal contributions to the realization of engineered materials and metamaterials, and their several applications in electromagnetics, photonics and acoustics’. March 11, 2021: Our review paper on analogue computing using metamaterials has been published in Nature Reviews Materials and featured on the cover. February 18, 2021: Our group has been selected for funding on two new AFOSR MURI projects on topological plasma metamaterials and on metasurfaces for sensing, processing and computing. February 17, 2021: Our paper on chiral quasi-bound states in the continuum has been published in Physical Review Letters. February 10, 2021: Our paper on self-assembled metastructures based on martensitic phase transformations has been published in Nano Letters, and features on the cover. January 27, 2021: Our paper on tunable chiral coupling in reconfigurable dielectric nanostructures has been published in Nano Letters and featured on the front cover. January 20, 2021: Our paper on exceptional point physics in a single-strand optical fiber has been published in Nature Communications. 2020: December 24, 2020: Our paper on temporal switching to extend the bandwidth of thin absorbers has been published in Optica. December 10, 2020: Our work on twistronics for light, published in Nature and Nano Letters, has been featured as a Top 10 Breakthrough of 2020 by Physics World. [Press release] December 1, 2020: Our paper on nonreciprocal devices in silicon photonics has been published in Optics and Photonics News, Special Issue Year in Optics 2020. November 18, 2020: Andrea Alù has been selected as a 2020 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. (Press release) October 1, 2020: Our papers on magnet-free nonreciprocity and nonreciprocal microwave technology have been published in the Proceedings of IEEE, and featured on the cover. September 25, 2020: Our paper on nonreciprocal photonic topological order driven by uniform optical pumping has been published as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B. September 11, 2020: Our paper on PT-symmetry in Hermitian systems based on time modulation has been published as a Letter in Physical Review Applied, and picked as Editor’s Suggestion. September 10, 2020: Our paper on the coherent control of metagratings for tunable perfect diffraction has been published in Advanced Materials, and featured on the inside back cover. August 28, 2020: Our paper clarifying the dynamics of nonrecirocal cavities and their relation with the time-bandwidth limit has been published in Optica. July 17, 2020: Our paper reporting the first Floquet topological insulator for elastic waves has been published in Science Advances. [Press release, Physics World, UPI, SUM] June 23 , 2020: Andrea Alù has been selected to lead the Simons Foundation Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena, with up to 16M$ of funding over 8 years to develop fundamental research on metamaterials. [Press release] June 30, 2020: Our paper on nonreciprocal metagratings based on synthetically moving particles has been published in Photonics, and featured on the cover. June 17 , 2020: Andrea Alù has been named a Blavatnik National Award Finalist for the fifth time. June 17 , 2020: Our paper on virtual critical coupling has been published in ACS Photonics, and featured on the cover. June 11 , 2020: Our paper on twistronics for photons and photonic magic angles has been published in Nature, with a nice highlight in Physics World. (SharedIt, Phys.org, Independent) May 20, 2020: Our paper demonstrating full‐color complex‐amplitude vectorial holograms based on multi‐freedom metasurfaces has been published in Advanced Functional Materials, and featured on the cover. May 14, 2020: Our paper on virtual parity-time symmetry, introducing a mechanism to induce PT-symmetry through non-monochromatic excitations, has been published in Physical Review Letters. May 13, 2020: Our paper on Moiré hyperbolic metasurfaces has been published in Nano Letters. The work was highlighted on Phys.org. May 2, 2020: Our alum Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz has received promotion and tenure in the ECE department at UC Davis. April 30, 2020: Our paper demonstrating a quantized acoustic octupole topological insulator has been published in Nature Communications. April 28, 2020: Our special issue on active nanophotonics has been published in Proceedings of IEEE, including a review paper on the topic from our group. April 7, 2020: Our paper demonstrating efficient focusing with record-high numerical aperture using a hybrid metasurface lens has been published in Physical Review Applied. April 6, 2020: Our paper on self-assembled metamaterials based on eutectics has been published in Advanced Optical Materials and selected for the inside front cover. April 2, 2020: Our paper demonstrating robust scattering around exceptional points has been published in Physical Review Letters. March 27, 2020: Our paper demonstrating a third-order hierarchy of topological states in acoustics has been published in Science Advances. March 23, 2020: Our paper on a non-reciprocal silicon photonic router based on asymmetric nonlinearities, in collaboration with J. Vuckovic, has been published in Nature Photonics. A News and Views article has also appeared in the same issue. (SharedIt) [Press release, Ars Technica] March 20, 2020: Our alum Dimitrios Sounas has won the EURAAP Leopold B. Felsen Award. February 27, 2020: Our postdoc Yarden Mazor will join Tel Aviv University as an assistant professor next Fall. January 28, 2020: Our paper on higher-order photonic topological insulators based on long-range interactions has been published in Nature Photonics and featured on the cover of the January 2020 issue. [Press release] January 8, 2020: Our paper on nonlinear topological metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review B, and selected for Kaleidoscope. 2019: December 20, 2019: Our paper clarifying the analogies and differences between nonscattering states, such as anapoles and cloaking states, and embedded eigenstates in terms of excitation has been published in ACS Photonics and features on the journal cover. December 20, 2019: Our paper on silver dendrites for efficient Raman spectroscopy has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, and selected as Editor’s Pick. December 3, 2019: Our paper on hyperbolic sound propagation over nonlocal acoustic metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters. December 9, 2019: Our freshly started CUNY PhD track PhotoNYCs is actively recruiting PhD students. Please apply by January 10, 2020 for full consideration of your profile! December 3, 2019: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors ‘for having demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society’’. December 3, 2019: Our PhD alumnus Ahmed Kord has been selected as a 2020 Forbes 30 under 30 for his PhD work on magnet-less circulators. December 3, 2019: Our paper on anomalies in light scattering has been published in Advances in Optics and Photonics. November 30, 2019: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of AAAS ‘for .distinguished contributions to the field of electromagnetics and photonics, particularly for the modeling and applications of artificial materials and metamaterials’ November 29, 2019: Our paper on robust information transfer and tunneling based on parity-time-symmetric absorber-emitter pairs has been published in Research. November 22, 2019: Our paper on metasurfaces for valleytronics has been published in the special issue of Optics and Photonics News, Year in Optics, featuring the best research in optics published in 2019. November 21, 2019: Our DURIP proposal on Non-Reciprocal Quantum Metamaterials has been selected for funding from DoD. November 19, 2019: Andrea Alù has been selected as 2019 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. November 18, 2019: Our paper on exceptional point sensing in a sixth-order PT-symmetric electronic circuit has been published in Physical Review Letters. October 16, 2019: Our paper on Floquet impedance matching for small antennas has been published in Physical Review Letters. September 16, 2019: Prof. Younes Radi has received the MDPI Best Paper Award at Metamaterials 2019, with the paper Y. Radi, A. Alù, “Nonreciprocal Metagratings” . August 30, 2019: Our paper on optically- induced Faraday rotation through nonlinearities has been pbulished in Optica. August 21, 2019: Our paper on coherent virtual absorption of elastodynamic waves has been pbulished in Science Advances and featured in Newsweek. [Press release] August 21, 2019: Our paper on scattering switches using phase-change materials has been published in ACS Photonics, and selected for the jounral cover. August 20, 2019: Our paper on a photonic crystal based magnet-free circulator has been published in ACS Photonics, and selected for the jounral cover. August 9, 2019: Our paper on non-reciprocal Willis coupling in zero-index acoustic materials, has been published in Physical Review Letters. July 31, 2019: Our paper on quasi-electrostatic wave propagation in switched networks overcoming the delay-bandwidth limit has been published in Physical Review X J uly 24, 2019: Our paper on broadband delay lines in unidirectional waveguides has been published in Physical Review B as a Rapid Communication. July 17, 2019: Our paper on the experimental observation of maximum Willis coupling in acoustic scatterers, confirming our earlier theoretical prediction, has been published in Nature Communications. July 10, 2019: Our paper on optomechanically-induced birefringence and Faraday effect has been published in Physical Review Letters. June 24, 2019: Andrea Alù has received the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society for ‘contributions to novel electromagnetic materials and their application’. June 21, 2019: Andrea Alù is a finalist for the IET A. F. Harvey Prize Engineering Research Prize. June 10, 2019: Our paper on the excitation of single-photon embedded eigenstates has been published in Optica. [Press release] May 31, 2019: Younes Radi has received aURSI Young Scientist Award and the 2nd prize at the Young Scientist Best Paper Award at URSI EMTS 2019, with the paper ‘Nonreciprocal Wavefront Manipulation in Bianisotropic Moving Metagratings’. June 20, 2019: Xuchen Wang has received the Best Young Scienstist Award at PIERS 2019 in Rome, Italy, with the paper ‘Multi-Functional Space-Time Metasurfaces’. May 31, 2019: Andrea Alù has been selected as a National Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering. He was selected also in 2016, 2017 and 2018. May 17, 2019: Our paper on all-optical reconfigurable chiral metamolecules has been featured on the cover of Materials Today. May 1, 2019: Andrea Alù has received the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense. [Press release] April 12, 2019: Our paper on anti-parity-time symmetry in thermal diffusive systems, in collaboration with C.W. Qiu’s group, has been published in Science. April 9, 2019: Andrea Alù has been appointed on the editorial board of Applied Physics Letters. April 5, 2019: Andrea Alù has been elected President of the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials (Metamorphose). April 5, 2019: Our alumn Prof. Francesco Monticone has received the EurAAP Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics. March 29, 2019: Our alumn Prof. Ali Miri has received the Henry Wasser award for outstanding Assistant Professors in CUNY. March 24, 2019: Our paper on acoustic supercoupling in a zero-compressibility metamaterial has been published in Research. February 23, 2019: Prof. Younes Radi has received an URSI Young Scientist Award. February 11, 2019: Our paper on separation of valley excitons using an asymmewtric metasurface has been published in Nature Photonics. [RedCube] January 16, 2019: Our paper on nonreciprocal cavities and the relation with the time-bandwidth limit has been published in Optica. [Press release] January 4, 2019: Our review paper on exceptional points in optics and photonics has been published in Science. 2018: December 31, 2018: Our paper on higher-order topological acoustic states has been published in Nature Materials. (SharedIt, News and Views, Press release, UPI, NSD, R&D, Space Daily) December 17, 2018: Our alumn Prof. Christos Agryropoulos has received an ONR YIP award. December 9, 2018: Our paper on coherent cooptics for energy transfer, storage and release has been published in Optics and Photonics News, Year in Optics, as one of the featured highlights for optics research in 2018. November 15, 2017: Andrea Alù has been selected as 2018 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. [Press release] November 12, 2018: Our paper on structural coloration with silicon nanopillars, in collaboration with our UT Austin colleagues, has been published in Optics Express and selected as Editor’s Pick. October 24, 2018: Our paper on nonlocal metasurfaces for optical analog computing has been published in Physical Review Letters. October 1, 2018: Andrea Alù has been elected to the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Administrative Committe. September 28, 2018: Andrea Alù has received the 2018 IUMRS-ICYRAM Award. He will receive the award in Adelaide, Australia, next November. September 26, 2018: Our alumn Prof. Francesco Monticone has received an AFOSR YIP award. June 20, 2018: Our paper on tunable orbital angular momentum lasing from microcavities biased with synthetic angular momentum has been published in Physical Review Letters. June 20, 2018: Our 3.2M$ DARPA NASCENT proposal on polaritonic metasurfaces, with collaborators from CCNY, UT Austin and EPFL, has been selected for award. June 20, 2018: Our paper on maximum Willis coupling in acoustic scatterers has been published in Physical Review Letters. June 6, 2018: Our invited review paper on nanophotonics with 2D transition metal dichalcogenides has been published in Optics Express, Special Issue for the 20th Anniversary, and selected as Editor’s Suggestion. June 4, 2018: Our paper on tunable Fano resonances and plasmon–exciton coupling in WS2, in collaboration with Y. Zheng’s group, has been published in Advanced Materials, and selected for Frontispice image. May 31, 2018: Andrea Alù has been selected as a National Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering. He was selected also in 2016 and in 2017. [Press release] May 14, 2018: Our paper on generalized parity-time symmetry for telemetric sensing has been published in Nature Electronics. [News and Views; Press release] May 11, 2018: Our paper on Klein tunneling in photonic topological insulators has been published in Science Advances. May 4, 2018: Our paper on optical circulation based on opto-mechanics, in collaboration with our AMOLF colleagues, has been published in Nature Communications. [Press release] April 11, 2018: Our paper on giant Farday rotation in metasurfaces, in collaboration with our CCNY colleagues, has been published in Optics Letters, and selected as Editor’s Suggestion. April 3, 2018: Our 7.5M$ Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) proposal on Magnet-Free Non-Reciprocal Metamaterials Based on Spatio-Temporal Modulation has been selected for award by the U.S. Department of Defense. We look forawrd to years of exciting nanophotonics research with our team members at Columbia, Stanford, UMich. [Press release] April 2, 2018: Our paper on coherently enhanced wireless power transfer has been published in Physical Review Letters, selected as Editor’s Suggestion, and highlighted with a Focus article by P. Ball in Physics. March 5, 2018: Our paper on self-induced topological protection in nonlinear circuit arrays has been published in Nature Electronics. [Press release] March 5, 2018: Our review paper on resonant dielectric nanoparticles has been featured on the front cover of Advanced Optical Materials. February 25, 2018: Our review paper on nonlinear metasurfaces has appeared in Materials Today. February 8, 2018: Our paper on broadband passive isolators based on coupled nonlinear resonators has been published in Nature Electronics, and featured on the cover of the February 2018 issue. A News and Views by H. Krishnaswamy et al. has appeared in the same issue. [Phys.org, Physics World, ShareIt] February 3, 2018: Our alumnus Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, currently an Assistant Professor at UC Davis, has received an NSF CAREER award from the EPMD/ECCS program. January 26, 2018: Ahmed Kord has received an IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship. January 19, 2018: Our alumnus Pai-Yen Chen, currently an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University, has received an NSF CAREER award from the CCSS/ECCS program. January 9, 2018: Sander Mann has received a Rubicon 2-year grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to study non-reciprocal nanophotonics for thermal radiation. 2017: November 30, 2017: Our review paper on non-reciprocal photonics based on time-modulation has been published in Nature Photonics, and selected for the cover image of the December 2018 issue. November 22, 2017: Our paper on the concept of coherent virtual absorption has been published in Optica. November 15, 2017: Andrea Alù has been selected as 2017 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. October 6, 2017: Our paper on synchronized conducitivty modulation to realize magnet-free non-reciprocal devices in collaboration with Columiba University has been published in Nature Communications. [Press coverage] October 4, 2017: Our review paper on coherent perfect absorbers has been published in Nature Reviews Materials. October 4, 2017: Our commentary on optomechanical nonreciprocity has been published in Nature Physics. September 11, 2017: Our paper on the origin of Willis coupling in acoustic metamaterials has been published in Physical Review B and it has been selected as Editor’s Suggestion. September 8, 2017: Our invited paper on designer matter and metamaterials has been published in the MRS Bulletin. This paper is based on the award lecture given at the 2016 MRS Fall meeting for the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science. August 11, 2017: Pai-Yen Chen has been selected for the IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award for pioneering contributions and innovations in the development of concepts and applications of wireless and non-invasive sensors, and electromagnetic theory for radio-frequency, terahertz, and optical sensors. He will receive the award next November in Glasgow, Scotland. August 10, 2017: Our paper on meta-gratings that overcome the limits of graded metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters and it has been selected as Editor’s Suggestion. June 12, 2017: Our paper on fundamental principles of non-reciprocity in opto-mechanics has been published in Physical Review Applied. July 17, 2017: Andrea Alù has been selected as ACS Photonics Highly Prolific Author. June 8, 2017: Ahmed Kord has won the Student Design Competition (1st prize) ‘Magnet-Less Parametric Circulator Design’ at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, Honolulu, HI. May 31, 2017: Andrea Alù has been selected as a National Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering. He was selected also in 2016. May 19, 2017: Our review paper on magnetic dipole emission enhancement with nanophotonic structures has been published in Laser & Photonics Reviews and is featured on the front cover. May 6, 2017: Francecsco Monticone has received the inaugural Jacome Dissertation Prize from UT Austin for his dissertation ‘Scattering Engineering at the Extreme with Metamaterials, Metasurfaces and Nanostructures’. April 15, 2017: Our paper on fundamental bounds on asymmetric systems dictated by time-reversal symmetry has been published in Physical Review Letters. March 31, 2017: Ahmed Kord has received the best paper award at the 2017 Texas Symposium on Wireless & Microwave Circuits & Systems. February 12, 2017: Our paper on non-reciprocal mechanical metamaterials with topological order appeared in Nature. Videos of our experiments here and here. Press release, Physics World. February 8, 2017: Our works on Doppler electromagnetic cloaks and on lasing periodic arrays, in collaboration with University of Roma Tre and AMOLF, appeared in Physical Review B. February 6, 2017: Our invited review paper on metamaterial, plasmonic and nanophotonic devices has appeared in Reports of Progress in Physics. January 26, 2017: Our invited review paper on acoustic metamaterials in Nature Reviews Materials has been highlighted by the editors, and is free to download for the coming weeks. January 25, 2017: Our paper on detection of molecular chirality using twisted metamaterials has been published in Nature Communications. January 7, 2017: Our paper on advanced control of nonlinear beams with PB metasurfaces has been selected for Physical Review B Kaleidoscope. 2016: December 17, 2016: Andrea Alù has been selected for the inaguural Materials Young Investigator Award from MDPI. December 16, 2016: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of SPIE ‘for achievements in optical metamaterials and plasmonics’. December 5, 2016: Andrea Alù has been selected to receive the ICO Prize in Optics. He will receive the award and deliver the Ernst Abbe Lecture at the ICO General Congress in Tokyo, Japan. November 29, 2016: Our paper on nonreciprocity and magnetic-free isolation based on optomechanical interactions, in collaboration with our colleagues at AMOLF, has been published in Nature Communications. A press release is available here. November 23, 2016: Our News and Views paper on the present state and future directions in metamaterials has been pblished in Nature Materials. November 19, 2016: Our paper on tunable nanoantennas, in collaboration with ITMO, has appeared in Laser & Photonics Reviews and featured in IEEE Spectrum. October 25, 2016: Our paper on parity-time symmetric metasurfaces for imaging has been published in Physical Review X. October 14, 2016: Our paper on transforming optical wavefronts using graded metasurfaces has appeared in Physical Review X. September 22, 2016: Congratulations to Mykhailo Tymchenko for receiving the Best Paper Award (2nd place) at the Metamaterials 2016 conference in Crete! August 30, 2016: Andrea Alù has received the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science. He will receive the award and deliver the award lecture at the 2016 MRS Fall meeting. August 8, 2016: Our Emerging Frontiers in Research (EFRI) proposal on New frontiers for topologically-protected propagation of light, sound, elastic and mechanical waves has been selected for award by the National Science Foundation. July 31, 2016: Congratulations to Francesco Monticone, Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz and Yakir Hadad for having accepted faculty positions at Cornell University, UC Davis and Tel Aviv University, respectively! July 3, 2016: Our paper on the theoretical bounds on the bandwidth of passive metamaterial cloaks has been published in Optica. Several news outlets have highlighted our work, including Optics and Photonics News, Huffington Post, Motherboard (press release). July 29, 2016: Congratulations to Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri for receiving an IEEE Photonics Graduate Fellowship! June 17, 2016: Our paper on Floquet topological insulators for sound has been published in Nature Communications. June 9, 2016: Ahmed Kord has received a 2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Doctoral Research Award with the project ‘New Frontiers in Electromagnetic Metamaterials Using Active Circuits’. June 2, 2016: Our paper on the analogue of the Drexhage effect for sound, in collaboration with our colleagues at AMOLF, has been published in Physical Review Letters, selected as Editor’s Suggestion, and highligted with a Synopsis in Physics. June 1, 2016: Andrea Alù has been selected as a National Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering. May 9, 2016: Francesco Monticone has received the WNCG Student Leadership Award from the Wireless Networking and Coimmunications Group at UT Austin. May 5, 2016: Andrea Alù has been named a Simons Investigator in Physics. This program aims to provide a stable base of support for outstanding scientists, enabling them to undertake long-term (up to 10 years) investigations of the fundamental questions in their fields. April 19, 2016: Ahmed Kord has received a 2016 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for the project ‘Fully-Integrated Reconfigurable Magnet-less Non-reciprocal Components for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems’, in collaboration with Columbia University. April 19, 2016: Our paper on plasmonic NEMS for infrared sensing, in collaboration with Prof. Rinaldi at NEU, has been published in Nature Communications. April 12, 2016: Our paper on giant photoresponsivity in mid-IR hyperbolic metamaterial devices has been published in Physical Review Applied and selected as Editors’ Suggestion. April 8, 2016: Our Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) proposal on Ultralow Power, Ultrafast, Integrated Nano-Optoelectronics has been selected for award by the U.S. Department of Defense. We look forawrd to several years of exciting nanophotonics research with our team members at Stanford, Harvard and UPenn. April 1, 2016: Our latest research on cloaking and radio-frequency transparency was featured on Fox 7. March 29, 2016: Our paper on time-modulated antennas, that break the symmetry between emission and absorption has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and it has been highlighted in several news outlets, including Physics World and Physics Today. March 17, 2016: Dr. Yakir Hadad has received the 2016 Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics. He will receive the award at the banquet of EuCAP in Davos, Switzerland in April. March 8, 2016: Our paper on nonlinear gradient metasurfaces,was published in Optica. February 12, 2016: Andrea Alù has been awarded the inaugural ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship. He will receive the award and give a plenary talk at META’16 next July in Malaga, Spain. February 16, 2016: Our invited review paper on acoustic metamaterials was published in Nature Reviews Materials. February 1, 2016: Our paper on magnetic-free radio-frequency circulators based on spatiotemporally modulated coupled resonators was published in the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 2015: December 8, 2015: Andrea Alù has been awarded the 2016 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas ‘For a number of groundbreaking, highly-cited and recognized contributions to science and engineering. These contributions include seminal work on cloaking and invisibility, pioneering advances in optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas, magnetic-free non-reciprocal devices for sound, radio-waves and light, and giant nonlinear response in optical metamaterials’. He will receive the award in Dallas, TX, on Jan. 21 during the TAMEST Annual Conference. December 1, 2015: Our highlight on hyperbolic metasurfaces for ultrathin devices has appeared in Ooptics and Photonics News, Year in Optics 2015 issue. November 12, 2015: Romain Fleury has won the Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America! November 10, 2015: Our paper on nonlinear Pancharatnam-Berry gradient metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters. October 27, 2015: Our Journal of Applied Physics paper on acoustic scattering cancellation of odd-shaped objects, in collaboration with colleagues at NRL and ARL, has been featured on the journal cover, selected as featured article, and highlighted by an American Institute of Physics press release. October 22, 2015: Yang Zhao has won the Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award from the American Physical Society for her PhD dissertation ‘Bio-Inspired Nanophotonics: Manipulating Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonic Metamaterials’! October 7, 2015: Our paper on a topological insulator for acoustic waves has been published in Nature Communications. September 24, 2015: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society ‘for seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials’ upon recommendation of the Division of Laser Science. September 25, 2015: Romain Fleury has been appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). September 24, 2015: Our paper introducing the concept of time-gradient metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications. September 1, 2015: Our invited review paper on cloaking, from origins to future perspectives, has been published in Physical Review Applied. September 1, 2015: Our invited review paper on nonreciprocal acoustics has been published in Acoustics Today. July 20, 2015: Francesco Monticone has received an IEEE Photonics Society 2015 Graduate Student Fellowship. July 16, 2015: Our paper presenting a new way to cloaking based on parity-time symmetric metasurfaces with balanced loss and gain has been published in Physical Review Applied. June 11, 2015: Our paper on hyperblic plasmons and topological transitions on metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters. May 26, 2015: Our paper on leaky-wave applications from RF to the visible has been published in the Proceedings of IEEE. May 22-23, 2015: Romain Fleury, Jason Soric, and Nicholas Estep successfully defended their PhDs. May 21, 2015: Nicholas Estep has been awarded the third place at the Student Paper Compeition in the 2015 Intenational Microwave Symposium, Phoenix, AZ, for his work on magnetic-free circulators. May 1, 2015: Our review paper on nanophotonics, in collaboration with AMOLF colleagues A. Polman and A. F. Koenderink, has been published in Science. April 25, 2015: Our inventions to realize magnetic-free circulators for radio-frequency and sound have been licensed to Silicon Audio. April 23, 2015: Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz has received the Junior Raj Mittra Travel Grant Award. he will receive it at the awards banquet at the 2015 IEEE AP-S Symposium in Vancouver, Canada. April 16, 2015: The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Andrea Alù, the 2015 Alan T. Waterman Award, the highest U.S. honor for young scientists in any field of research. The award comes with $1 million and will be presented at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 5.. Alù is the first recipient from a Texas university. News brief and video from NSF. April 16, 2015: Our review paper ‘Metamaterials and plasmonics: From nanoparticles to nanoantenna arrays, metasurfaces, and metamaterials’ was the most downloaded paper from Chinese Physics B in 2014. April 10, 2015: Andrea Alù has been invited to speak at the 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering, taking place Sept. 9-11 in Irvine, CA. He will present a on ‘Creating New Devices with Metamaterials’. March 13, 2015: Francesco Monticone and Jason Soric have received Honorable Mentions at the 2015 IEEE AP-S student paper competition. March 13, 2015: Juan Sebastian Gomez-Diaz received the URSI Young Scientist Award from the First Atlantic URSI Conference. February 5, 2015: Our paper on Ultrafast modulation with polaritonic metasurfaces was selected for the 2014 Best of Advanced Optical Materials. January 30, 2015: Two of our recent papers, the topical review ‘Recent advances in optical metasurfaces’ and ‘Infrared beam-steering using acoustically modulated surface plasmons over a graphene monolayer,’ have been selected by the editors as Journal of Optics’ Highlights of 2014. January 6, 2015: Our paper on an invisible acoustic sensor based on PT-symmetry has just been published in Nature Communications. January 4, 2015: Andrea Alù has been awarded the KNAW Visiting Professorship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2014: December 23, 2014: Romain Fleury received the Best Student Paper Award in Engineering Acoustics for our paper on non-reciprocal acoustic devices based on spatio-temporal modulation, and the Young Presenter Award in Noise for our talk on parity-time symmetric acoustic metasurfaces at the 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis, IN. December 12, 2014: Ahmed Kord received the first prize at the Texas Instruments Outstanding Student Designer Competition. December 12, 2014: Romain Fleury received the Young Presenter Award in Noise, for our talk at the 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Indianapolis, IN, dealing with parity-time symmetric acoustic metasurfaces. December 5, 2014: Our invited review paper on recent advances in optical metasurfaces has been selected as Journal of Optics’ Paper of the Week, and featured on the frontpage of the journal website. November 20, 2014: Our paper on fast modulation in mid-IR metasurfaces, in collaboration with M. Belkin’s group, has just appeared in Advanced Optical Materials, and featured on the inside front cover. November 10, 2014: Our paper on magnetic-free radio-wave isolation and circulation has just appeared in Nature Physics. A nice News and Views commentary from Ari Sihvola has appeared on the same issue. UT Austin press release, press coverage on Motherboard, MIT Technology Review. October 16, 2014: Our invited feature paper on optical magnetic metamaterials has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C. October 4, 2014: Francesco Monticone received the Homer Lindsey Bruce Graduate Fellowship from the University of Texas! September 22, 2014: Our paper on acoustically modulated surface plasmons on a graphene monolayer has been selected as Journal of Optics’ Paper of the Week, and featured on the frontpage of the journal website. August 29, 2014: Romain Fleury won the Best Student Paper Award in Metamaterials 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, with the paper ‘Parity-Time Acoustic Metamaterials and Unidirectional Invisible Sensors.’ August 25, 2014: Our paper ‘Wave Propagation in Twisted Metamaterials,’ has been selected as PRB Editor’s Suggestion.August 15, 2014: Our paper R. Fleury, A. Alù, “Manipulation of Electron Flow Using Near-Zero Index Semiconductor Metamaterials,” has been selected for Physical Review B Kaleidoscope. July 10, 2014: Our paper “Negative Refraction and Planar Focusing Based on Parity-Time Symmetric Metasurfaces,” has been published in Physical Review Letters. May 29, 2014: Our paper ‘Giant Nonlinear Response from Plasmonic Metasurfaces Coupled to Intersubband Transitions,’ has been published in Nature. News briefs on several websites, including UT Austin, Nanowerk. May 29, 2014: Our paper ‘Embedded Photonic Eigenvalues in 3D Nanostructures,’ has been published in Physical Review Letters, and has been selected as one of this issue’s PRL Editor’s Suggestions. May 29, 2014: Our paper ‘Modular Assembly of Optical Nanocircuits,’ has been published in Nature Communications. May 9, 2014: Our paper on ‘Giant Nonlinear Response from Plasmonic Metasurfaces Coupled to Intersubband Transitions,’ in collaboration with M. Belkin’s group, has been accepted in Nature! April 28, 2014: The H2 Team (B. De Garza, E. Ge, J. Lu, M. Perez, S. Soliman) won the first prize in the UT ECE Senior Design Competition with our project on ‘Active Camouflaging for Broadband Scattering Reduction’. April 6, 2014: Nicholas Estep won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 Texas Symposium on Wireless & Microwave Circuits & Systems with our work on ‘Angular-Momentum-Biasing for Non-Reciprocal Radio-Frequency Components’. April 5, 2014: Jason Soric has been selected as a finalist of the upcoming IEEE AP-S Student Paper competition in Memnphis, TN. Nicholas Estep and Francesco Monticone have been selected for an Honorable Mention award. Congratulations to all! March 19, 2014: Our paper on isolation and non-reciprocity in integrated nanophotonic devices is featured on the cover of ACS Photonics, March 19, 2014: Our paper on isolation and non-reciprocity in integrated nanophotonic devices is published in ACS Photonics, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 198-2014. The paper is featured on the cover of ACS Photonics. March 19, 2014: Andrea Alù has been selected as IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer. He will serve until 2017. March 5, 2014: Our paper on alignment-free optical metamaterials is published in Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 26, No. 9, pp. 1439-1445. February 28, 2014: Our sound circulator work is featured on NPR national radio, Scientific American, KUT radio and on Bloomberg Businessweek. Our cloaking work is featured on The Alcalde, the official publication of the Texas Exes. February 16, 2014: Andrea Alù has received the 2014 Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society "for outstanding early career contributions to the microwave profession”. He will receive the award at the International Microwave Symposium, Tampa, FL, June 1- 6, 2014. January 31, 2014: Our paper on the first-of-its-kind circulator for sound, based on which we can break time-reversal symmetry in acoustics, has been published in Science. and featured on the cover page. A Perspective article by Steve Cummer and news highlights on Physics World, NBC News, Phys.org, Science Daily, LiveScience have covered the story. (reprint, full text) January 15, 2014: Our paper on physical bounds of cloaked sensors has been published in Physical Review B, and selected as PRB Editor’s Suggestion. January 10, 2014: Our paper on computational metamaterials has been published in Science, accompanied by a nice Perspective byAri Sihvola and several news highlights (Phys.org, New Scientist). 2013: December 19, 2013: Andrea Alù has received the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics 2013 from the International Commission for Optics "for ground breaking work in metamaterials and plasmonics, and for the introduction of the concept of scattering-cancellation-based metamaterial cloaking”. December 17, 2013: Our paper on broadband cloaking using non-Foster metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters, and selected as PRL Editor’s Suggestion. December 9, 2013: Andrea Alù has been selected as an American Physical Society (APS) Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals, by the journal editors. December 3, 2013: Two of our papers have been accepted and are currently in press in Science. November 26, 2013: Our review paper on metamaterial-enhanced nanophotonics has been selected and published in the Special Issue of Optics and Photonics News, for Optics in 2013. November 25, 2013: Andrea Alù has been elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for “contributions to the theory and applications of electromagnetic metamaterials and plasmonic phenomena”. November 11, 2013: Our upcoming PRL paper on non-Foster cloaking and our recent PRX paper on cloaking bounds are covered by Time Magazine, BBC, NBC News, Gizmag and Physics World, among many others. November 7, 2013: Our recent PRX paper on cloaking bounds is covered by BBC, NBC News, Gizmag and Physics World. November 5, 2013: Our invited paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Terahertz Metamaterial Devices Based on Graphene Nanostructures,” has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, Special Issue on Metamaterials, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 748-756. October 29, 2013: Andrea Alù has received the inaugural 2013 Franco Strazzabosco Award for Young Engineers at the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC, awarded to an Italian engineer under 40 to recognize his entrepreneurial courage who strive in applying scientific discoveries to public advantage. The award came together with the Medal of Representation of the President of the Republic of Italy. October 29, 2013: Francesco Monticone has received an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award. October 28, 2013: Andrea Alù has been elected Fellow of the Optical Societ of America “for outstanding contributions to the fields of photonic metamaterials, plasmonic phenomena and devices, cloaking and scattering suppression." October 21, 2013: Our invited paper F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Do Cloaked Objects Really Scatter Less?,” has been published in Physical Review X, Special Issue on Metamaterials, Vol. 3, No. 4, 041005 (10 pages). October 15, 2013: Our paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Terahertz Metamaterial Devices Based on Graphene Nanostructures,” has been published in Nanotechnology, Vol. 24, No. 45, 455202 (7 pages). October 1, 2013: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, F. Monticone, G. D’Aguanno, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Metasurfaces to Realize Fano Spectra at Ultraviolet Wavelengths,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 103, No. 14, 143113 (4 pages). September 23, 2013: Francesco Monticone has won the best student paper award at Metamaterials 2013, with the paper F. Monticone, A. Alù, 'On Physical Bounds of Cloaking and Invisibility'. September 23, 2013: Our invited paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Electromagnetic Funneling through a Single-Negative Slab Paired with a Double-Positive Transformation Slab,” has been published in The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering – COMPEL, Special Issue for FEM2010/MeTA2010, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp.1821-1833. September 23, 2013: Our invited paper M. Barbuto, A. Alù, F. Bilotti, A. Toscano, and L. Vegni, “Characteristic Impedance of a Microstrip Line with a Dielectric Overlay,” has been published in The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering – COMPEL, Special Issue for FEM2010/MeTA2010, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp.1855-1867. September 7, 2013: Our paper X. X. Liu, J. W. Massey, M. F. Wu, K. T. Kim, R. A. Shore, A. E. Yılmaz, and A. Alù, “Homogenization of Three-Dimensional Metamaterial Objects and Validation by a Fast Surface-Integral Equation Solver,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 21, No. 19, pp. 21714-21727. September 2, 2013: Our paper D. L. Sounas, C. Caloz, and A. Alù, “Giant Non-Reciprocity at the Subwavelength Scale Using Angular Momentum-Biased Metamaterials,” has been published in Nature Communications, Vol. 4, No. 2407 (7 pages). September 1, 2013: A. Alù is promoted to Associate Professor and David & Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering. July 29, 2013: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Extraordinary Sound Transmission through Density-Near-Zero Ultranarrow Channels,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, No. 5, 055501 (5 pages). June 26, 2013: Our paper X. X. Liu, and A. Alù, “Generalized Retrieval Method for Metamaterial Constitutive Parameters Based on a Physically Driven Homogenization Approach,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 87, No. 23, 235136 (7 pages). June 17, 2013: Our invited paper C. Argyropoulos, N. Mohammadi Estakhri, F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Negative Refraction, Gain and Nonlinear Effects in Hyperbolic Metamaterials,” has been published in Optics Express, Focus Issue on Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications, Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 15037-15047. May 30, 2013: Phys.org covers our paper on meta-transmitarrays. May 15, 2013: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Furtive Quantum Sensing Using Matter-Wave Cloaks,,” has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications, Vol. 87, No. 20, 201106(R) (5 pages). May 14, 2013: Our paper F. Monticone, N. Mohammadi Estakhri, and A. Alù, “Full Control of Nanoscale Optical Transmission with a Composite Metascreen,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, No. 20, 203903 (5 pages). The paper has been selected as PRL Editor's suggestion! May 10, 2013: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Enhanced Superradiance in Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Channels,” has been published in Physical Review B, Rapid Communications, Vol. 87, No. 20, 201101(R) (5 pages). May 10, 2013: Our paper N. Mohammadi Estakhri, and A. Alù, "Physics of Unbounded, Broadband Absorption/Gain Efficiency in Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 87, No. 20, 205418 (9 pages). May 10, 2013: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, K. Q. Le, N. Mattiucci, G. D’Aguanno, and A. Alù, “Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters Based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 87, No. 20, 205112 (6 pages). May 7, 2013: The comment G. Eleftheriades, A. Alù, “Comment on ‘Propagation and Negative Refraction’,” has been published in IEEE Microwave Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 24-30. May 6, 2013: The paper A. Alù, "Wave-Shaping Surfaces,” has been published in Physics, Vol. 6, No. 53. April 24, 2013: Our paper G. Castaldi, S. Savoia, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “PT Metamaterials via Complex-Coordinate Transformation Optics,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, No. 17, 173901 (5 pages). The paper has been selected as PRL Editor's suggestion! April 7, 2013: Christos Argyropoulos has received the 2013 Raj Mittra Travel Award! April 1, 2013: Our invited paper A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Theory, Modeling and Features of Optical Nanoantennas,” has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Special Issue on Antennas and Propagation at Mm‐ and Sub Mm‐Waves, Vol. 61, No. 4, Part 1, pp. 1508-1517. April 1, 2013: Our paper P. Y. Chen, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Terahertz Antenna Phase Shifters Using Integrally-Gated Graphene Transmission-Lines,” has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Special Issue on Antennas and Propagation at Mm‐ and Sub Mm‐Waves, Vol. 61, No. 4, Part 1, pp. 1528-1537. March 27, 2013: our new paper on mantle cloaking New J. Phys. 15, 033037 (2013) has raised international attention on the general news. Press release. Some examples: CNN, NBC, Fox, Discovery, US News, Daily Mail, Physics World, TIME. Please check our recent TEDx talk on the topic for more info. March 25, 2013: Andrea Alù has received the 2013 OSA Adolph Lomb Medal for 'outstanding contributions to the fields of optical metamaterials and plasmonic optics, and for development of the concept of plasmonic cloaking'. The award, established in 1940, recognizes noteworthy contributions made to optics before reaching the age of 35. March 25, 2013: Our paper J. C. Soric, P. Y. Chen, A. Kerkhoff, D. Rainwater, K. Melin, and A. Alù, “Demonstration of an Ultralow Profile Cloak for Scattering Suppression of a Finite-Length Rod in Free Space,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 15, No. 3, 033037 (18 pages). March 15, 2013: Our paper Y. Zhao, and A. Alù, “Tailoring the Dispersion of Plasmonic Nanorods to Realize Broadband Optical Meta-Waveplates,” has been published in Nano Letters, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 1086-1091. March 12, 2013: Our paper F. Monticone, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Multi-Layered Plasmonic Covers for Comblike Scattering Response and Optical Tagging,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, No. 11, 113901 (5 pages). The paper has been selected as PRL Editor's suggestion! March 4, 2013: Our paper D. Rainwater, A. Kerkhoff, K. Melin, J. C. Soric, G. Moreno, and A. Alù, New J. Phys. 14, 013054 (2012) has been selected as one of the 2012 Highlights of the New Journal of Physics. February 19, 2013: Watch our TEDx talk on our recent work on metamaterials and cloaking! Coverage from the Cockrell School of Engineering and the script are here. Also on the TED website. January 29, 2013: A News and Views article from Peter Nordlander highlighting our recent Nature Nanotechnology paper on magnetic-based Fano resonant nanocluster has appeared in the same issue]! January 29, 2013: Our paper Y. Lee, K. Hoshino, A. Alù, and X. Zhang, “Tunable Directive Radiation of Surface-Plasmon Diffraction Gratings,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 2748-2756. January 27, 2013: Our paper F. Shafiei*, F. Monticone*, K. Q. Le, X. X. Liu, T. Hartsfield, A. Alù, and X. Li, “A Subwavelength Plasmonic Metamolecule Exhibiting Magnetic-Based Optical Fano Resonance,” has been published in Nature Nanotechnology! January 22, 2013: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Plasmonic Cloaking of Matter Waves,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 87, No. 4, 045423 (6 pages). January 9, 2013: Our paper N. Liu*, F. Wen*, Y. Zhao*, Y. Wang, P. Nordlander, N. Halas, and A. Alù, “Individual Nanoantennas Loaded with Three-dimensional Optical Nanocircuits,” has been published in Nano Letters, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 142-147. 2012: December 28, 2012: Our paper J. Soric, S. Maci, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Omnidirectional Small Antennas Based on ε-Near-Zero Channel Matching,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 33-44. December 20, 2012: Our paper A. Monti, J. Soric, A. Alù, A. Toscano, L. Vegni, and F. Bilotti, “Overcoming Mutual Blockage Between Neighboring Dipole Antennas Using a Low-Profile Patterned Metasurface,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 11, pp. 1414-1417. December 6, 2012: Our invited review paper P. Y. Chen, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Enhanced Nonlinearities Using Plasmonic Nanoantennas,” has been published in Nanophotonics, Vol. 1, No. 3-4, pp. 221-233. December 6, 2012: Our paper Y. Zhao, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Effects of Shape and Loading of Optical Nanoantennas on Their Sensitivity and Radiation Properties,” Journal of Optical Society of America B, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 1266-1274, April 27, 2011 has been awarded the 2012 CST University Publication Award! December 3, 2012: Our invited paper F. Monticone, C. Argyropoulos, and A. Alù, “Cloaking Plasmonic Layers to Tailor the Optical Scattering at the Nnanoscale,” has been published in Scientific Reports, Special Issue for E-MRS 2012, Vol. 2, No. 912 November 21, 2012: Our paper Y. R. Padooru, A. B. Yakovlev, P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Line-Source Excitation of Realistic Conformal Metasurface Cloaks,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 112, No. 10, 104902 (11 pages). November 20, 2012: Our review paper P. Y. Chen, J. Soric, and A. Alù, “Invisibility and Cloaking Based on Scattering Cancellation,” has been published in Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. OP281-OP304. An image from this article has been selected as the inside cover figure. November 12, 2012: Our paper M. Farhat, P. Y. Chen, S. Guenneau, S. Enoch, and A. Alù, “Frequency-Selective Surface Acoustic Invisibility for Three-Dimensional Immersed Objects,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 86, No. 17, 174303 (8 pages). November 7, 2012: Our paper K. Q. Le, C. Argyropoulos, N. Mattiucci, G. D’Aguanno, M. J. Bloemer, and A. Alù, “Broadband Brewster Transmission through 2D Metallic Gratings,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 112, No. 9, 094317 (4 pages). November 1, 2012: Our paper P. Y. Chen, H. Huang, D. Akinwande, and A. Alù, “Distributed Amplifiers Based on Spindt-Type Field Emission Nanotriodes,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 1201-1211. An image from this article was selected for the front cover! October 28, 2012: Our paper R. Fleury, and A. Alù, “Exotic Properties and Potential Applications of Quantum Metamaterials,” has been published in Applied Physics A, Special Issue for META'12. October 19, 2012: Our review paper P. Y. Chen, J. Soric, and A. Alù, “Invisibility and Cloaking Based on Scattering Cancellation,” has been published in Advanced Materials, Vol. 24, No. 4. September 17, 2012: Our paper G. Castaldi, S. Savoia, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Analytical Study of Subwavelength Imaging by Uniaxial Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterial Slabs,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 86, No. 11, 115123 (10 pages). September 7, 2012: Our paper M. D. Guild, M. R. Haberman, A. Alù, “Plasmonic-Type Acoustic Cloak Made of a Bilaminate Shell,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 86, No. 10, 104302 (13 pages). August 21, 2012: Our paper M. A. Shapiro, S. Trendafilov, Y. Urzhumov, A. Alù, R. J. Temkin, and G. Shvets, "Active Negative-Index Metamaterial Powered by an Electron Beam,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 86, No. 8, 085132 (5 pages). August 14, 2012: Our paper Y. R. Padooru, A. B. Yakovlev, P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Analytical Modeling of Conformal Mantle Cloaks for Cylindrical Objects Using Sub-Wavelength Printed and Slotted Arrays,” has been published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 112, No. 3, 034907 (13 pages). July 23, 2012: Our paper Y. Lee, K. Hoshino, A. Alù, J. X. J. Zhang, “Efficient Directional Beaming from Small Apertures Using Surface-Plasmon Diffraction Gratings,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 101, No. 4, 041102 (4 pages). July 6, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Enhanced Nonlinear Effects in Metamaterials and Plasmonics,” has been published in Advanced Electromagnetics, Special Issue for META’12, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 46-51. June 27, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, P. Y. Chen, F. Monticone, G. D’Aguanno, and A. Alù, “Nonlinear Plasmonic Cloaks to Realize Giant All-Optical Scattering Switching,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, No. 26, 263905 (5 pages). June 2, 2012: Congratulations to Matthew D. Guild, who won the 1st prize at the Acoustics 2012 Student Paper Competition in Engineering Acoustics in Hong Kong with the paper M. D. Guild, M. Haberman, and A. Alù, “Achieving a Broadband Plasmonic-Type Acoustic Cloak Using Multilayered, Spherically Isotropic Elastic Shells”. May 31, 2012: The paper D. Rainwater, A. Kerkhoff, K. Melin, J. C. Soric, G. Moreno, and A. Alù, “Experimental Verification of Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Cloaking in Free-Space,” New Journal of Physics, Vol. 14, 013054 (13 pages) has been included in IoP Select. May 29, 2012: Our paper Y. Zhao, M. A. Belkin, and A. Alù, “Twisted Optical Metamaterials for Planarized, Ultrathin, Broadband Circular Polarizers,” has been published inNature Communications, Vol. 3, No. 870!. May 16, 2012: Our paper N. Mattiucci, G. D’Aguanno, A. Alù, C. Argyropoulos, J. V. Foreman, and M. J. Bloemer, “Taming the Thermal Emissivity of Metals: a Metamaterial Approach,” has been published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 100, No. 20, 201109. May 15, 2012: Our paper N. Akozbek, N. Mattiucci, D. De Ceglia, R. Trimm, A. Alù, G. D’Aguanno, M. A. Vincenti, M. Scalora, and M. J. Bloemer, “Experimental Demonstration of Plasmonic Brewster Angle Extraordinary Transmission through Extreme Subwavelength Slit Arrays in the Microwave,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 20, 205430 (4 pages). Apr. 24, 2012: A video featuring our cloaking research from TACC has been posted on Youtube. Apr. 13, 2012: Our paper G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, A. Alù, C. Argyropoulos, J. V. Foreman, and M. J. Bloemer, “Thermal Emission From a Metamaterial Wire Medium Slab,” has been published in Optics Express, Vol. 20, No. 9, pp. 9784-9789. Mar. 30, 2012: Our paper A. Abass, K. Q. Le, A. Alù, M. Burgelman, and B. Maes, “Dual-Interface Gratings for Broadband Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Solar Cells,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 11, 115449 (8 pages). Mar. 28, 2012: Our paper G. D’Aguanno, K. Q. Le, R. Trimm, A. Alù, N. Mattiucci, A. D. Mathias, N. Akozbek, and M. J. Bloemer, “Broadband Metamaterial for Nonresonant Matching of Acoustic Waves,” has been published in Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 2, No. 340 (5 pages)! Mar. 23, 2012: Congratulations to J. C. Soric who won the Best Student Paper Award (1st place) at the 2012 Mini-Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS 2012), Waco, TX with the paper J. C. Soric, A. Alù, "Microwave Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials". Mar. 23, 2012: Our paper A. Alù, P. A. Belov, and N. Engheta, New J. Phys. 13, 033026 (2011) has been selected for inclusion in the exclusive 'Highlights of 2011' collection of the New Journal of Physics. Mar. 13, 2012: Our paper Y. Li, A. Alù, and H. Ling, “Investigation of Leaky-Wave Propagation and Radiation in a Metal Cut-Wire Array,” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 1630-1634. Mar. 8, 2012: Congratulations to Nasim M. Estakhri, who has received the first rank among all 2011 M.Sc. Engineering students at the University of Tehran. Feb. 21, 2012: Our paper Y. Sun, B. Edwards, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Realization of Optical Lumped Nanocircuits at Infrared Wavelengths,” has been published in Nature Materials, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 208-212! Feb. 19, 2012: Our invited paper P. Y. Chen, F. Monticone, and A. Alù, “Suppressing the Electromagnetic Scattering with an Helical Mantle Cloak,” has been published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Special Cluster on Metamaterials, Vol. 10, pp. 1598-1601. Feb. 10, 2012: Our paper G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta “Nonlocal Transformation Optics,” has been published in Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, No. 6, 063902. Jan. 31, 2012: Andrea Alù has received the 2012 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award. Jan. 31, 2012: Our paper New Journal of Physics 14, 013054 (2012) on 3D cloaking has been downloaded 5093 times in the first 2 days. Jan. 31, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, M. J. Bloemer, and A. Alù, “Matching and Funneling Light at the Plasmonic Brewster Angle," has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 2, 024304 (9 pages). Jan. 27, 2012: Our paper C. Argyropoulos, P. Y. Chen, G. D’Aguanno, N. Engheta, and A. Alù, “Boosting Optical Nonlinearities in Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Channels,” has been published in Physical Review B, Vol. 85, No. 4, 045129 (5 pages). Jan. 25, 2012: Our paper on 3D plasmonic cloaking has gathered worldwide attention in the general press, see BBC News, IoP News, Kurzweil, PhysOrg, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, Wired, EnGadget, Science Illustrated. It is the most shared and most read news on BBC News. Jan. 25, 2012: Our paper D. Rainwater, A. Kerkhoff, K. Melin, J. C. Soric, G. Moreno, and A. Alù, “Experimental Verification of Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Cloaking in Free-Space,” has been published in the New Journal of Physics, Vol. 14, 013054 (13 pages). Jan. 6, 2012: Congratulations to Pai-Yen Chen, who won the 3rd prize at the USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting Student Paper Competition in Boulder, CO, with the paper P. Y. Chen, and A. Alù, “Ultra-Broadband Mantle Cloak Using Non-Foster Negative-Impedance Metasurfaces”. 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.