Nader Engheta

Nader Engheta

Nader Engheta

photo taken in December 2010
Born 1955
Tehran, Iran
Residence United States of America
Fields Physics, Electrical Engineering
Institutions University of Pennsylvania
Alma mater California Institute of Technology and University of Tehran
Doctoral advisor Charles H. Papas

Nader Engheta (Persian: نادر انقطاع‎‎) (born 1955 in Tehran) is an Iranian-American scientist. He has made contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, nano-materials, nanoscale optics, nanoantennas and miniaturized antennas, physics and reverse-engineering of polarization vision in nature, bio-inspired optical imaging, fractional paradigm in electrodynamics, and electromagnetics and microwaves.[1][2][3]

Background

He earned his Masters and PhD degrees from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.S. degree from the school of engineering (Fanni) of the University of Tehran.[4]

He is the originator of the new area of optical metatronics, i.e., metamaterial-based optical nano circuitry, in which properly designed nano structures function as "lumped' optical circuit elements such as optical capacitors, optical inductors and optical resistors.[5][6][7][8] These are the building blocks for the metatronic circuits operating with light. This concept has been recently verified and realized experimentally by him and his research group at the University of Pennsylvania.[9] This provides a new circuit paradigm for information processing at the nanoscale.

He and his group have developed several areas and concepts in the fields of metamaterials and plasmonic optics, including, (1) ‘extreme-parameter metamaterials’ and 'epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials';[10] (2) the concept of Omega structures, as one of the building blocks of structured materials,;[11][12] (3) ultrathin cavities and waveguides, with sizes beyond diffraction limits, providing possibilities for unprecedented miniaturization of devices;[13] (4) supercoupling phenomena between waveguides using low-permittivity ENZ metamaterials,;[14][15] (5) extended Purcell effects in nano-optics using the ENZ phenomena, in which enhanced photon density of states occurs in a relatively large area with essentially uniform phase;[16] (6) far-field subwavelength imaging lens based on ENZ hyperbolic metamaterials;[17] (7) scattering-cancellation-based plasmonic cloaking and transparency,;[18][19] (8) merging the field of graphene with the field of metamaterials and plasmonic optics in infrared regime, providing the roadmaps for one-atom-thick optical devices and one-atom-thick information processing,;[20][21] (9) microwave artificial chirality;[22] (10) “signal-processing” metamaterials and “meta-machine”, and (11) “digital” metamaterials.

He is currently the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania,[23] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, affiliated with the departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering, and Physics and Astronomy.

Awards and honors

Professor Engheta has received the following honors and awards:[24]

Books

Recent Publications

Press Releases and News Media Reports

References

  1. ↑ University of Pennsylvania. ScholarlyCommons: Repository. Author Nader Engheta.
  2. ↑ Research Interests. University of Pennsylvania. February 2011.
  3. ↑ "Research Interests" (web page). U Penn. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
  4. ↑ "Narrative Biography" (web page). U Penn. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
  5. ↑ N. Engheta, "Circuits with Light at Nanoscales: Optical Nanocircuits Inspired by Metamaterials”, Science, Vol. 317, pp. 1698–1702, September 21, 2007
  6. ↑ N. Engheta, "Taming Light at the Nanoscale,” Physics World , Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 31-34, September 2010
  7. ↑ N. Engheta, A. Salandrino, A. Alu, “Circuit Elements at Optical Frequencies: Nanoinductor, Nanocapacitor, and Nanoresistor,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, 095504, August 26, 2005
  8. ↑ "Nader Engheta: Wave interaction with metamaterials". SPIE Newsroom. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  9. ↑ Y. Sun, B. Edwards, A. Alu, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Realization of Optical Lumped Nanocircuit Elements at Infrared Wavelengths,” Nature Materials, Vol. 11, pp. 208-212, March 2012
  10. ↑ M. G. Silveirinha and N. Engheta, “Tunneling of Electromagnetic Energy through Sub-Wavelength Channels and Bends Using Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) Materials,” Physical Review Letters, 97, 157403, October 2006
  11. ↑ M. M. I. Saadoun and N. Engheta, "A Reciprocal Phase Shifter Using Novel Pseudochiral or omega medium," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 184-188, April 1992
  12. ↑ M. M. I. Saadoun and N. Engheta, "Theoretical Study of Electromagnetic Properties of Non-Local Omega Media" a chapter in Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER) Monograph Series, Vol. 9 on Bianisotropic and Bi-Isotropic Media and Applications, Alain Priou (ed.), December 1994, ch. 15, pp. 351-397
  13. ↑ N. Engheta, “An Idea for Thin, Subwavelength Cavity Resonators Using Metamaterials with Negative Permittivity and Permeability,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. Vol. 1, pp. 10-13, 2002
  14. ↑ B. Edwards, A. Alu, M. Young, M. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Verification of Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterial Coupling and Energy Squeezing Using a Microwave Waveguide”, Physical Review Letters, 100, 033903, January 25, 2008
  15. ↑ B. Edwards, A. Alu, M. Silveirinha and N. Engheta, “Reflectionless Sharp Bends and Corners in Waveguides Using Epsilon-Near-Zero Effects,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, 044905, February 18, 2009
  16. ↑ A. Alu and N. Engheta, “Boosting Molecular Fluorescence with a Plasmonic Nanolauncher,” Physical Review Letters, 103, 043902, July 21, 2009
  17. ↑ A. Salandrino and N. Engheta, “Far-Field Subdiffraction Optical Microscopy Using Metamaterial Crystals: Theory and Simulations,” Physical Review B, Vol. 74, 075103, August 2006
  18. ↑ A. Alu and N. Engheta, “Achieving Transparency with Metamaterial and Plasmonic Coatings,” Physical Review E, vol. 72, 016623, 2005
  19. ↑ B. Edwards, A. Alu, M. Silveirinha, and N. Engheta, “Experimental Verification of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies with Metamaterials,” Physical Review Letters, 103, 153901, October 6, 2009
  20. ↑ A. Vakil and N. Engheta, “Transformation Optics Using Graphene,” Science, Vol. 332, pp. 1291–1294, June 10, 2011
  21. ↑ A. Vakil, N. Engheta, “Fourier Optics on Graphene,” Physical Review B, 85, 075434, February 27, 2012
  22. ↑ N. Engheta and P. Pelet, "Modes in Chirowaveguides," Optics Letters, Vol. 14, No. 11, 593-595, June 1989
  23. ↑ "9/27/05, Ramsey Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering – Almanac, Vol. 52, No. 5". upenn.edu.
  24. ↑ Professor Engheta. "Recent Honors and Distinctions" (web page). University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
  25. ↑ "SPIE Gold Medal winner explores world of waves". SPIE Professional. Retrieved July 2015.
  26. ↑ http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1035.html Dr. Nader Engheta in Scientific American 50 list

See also

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