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June 4, 2025 | Optica

David Miller Awarded Optica’s Frederic Ives Medal

We are honored to announce that David A. B. Miller has received the 2025 Frederic Ives Medal / Jarus W. Quinn Prize—the highest award presented by Optica—for his pioneering contributions to optics and photonics.

April 4, 2025 | Harvard SEAS

Doubling down on metasurfaces

We’re excited to highlight new research from PI Federico Capasso’s group at Harvard, featured in Harvard SEAS News. Their groundbreaking work introduces a bilayer metasurface—two stacked layers of titanium dioxide nanostructures—that enables unprecedented control over light’s wavelength, phase,…

March 31, 2025 | Nature Communications

Groundbreaking Research by PI Nader Engheta's Group Featured on OPN Cover

We’re excited to announce that the work of PI Nader Engheta and his group, supported by the AFOSR MURI grant, has been selected for the cover of Optics & Photonics News (OPN) in December 2024.

February 3, 2025 | Pratt News

Maiken Mikkelsen Elected 2025 Optica Fellow

We are honored to announce that Maiken Mikkelsen has been elected a Fellow of Optica for her contributions to the understanding of light-matter interactions and ultrafast emission dynamics in plasmonic systems.

January 2, 2025 | Physics World

Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2024!

We are excited to announce that research from PI Mark Brongersma's group has been highlighted in Physics World’s Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2024 for developing a novel technique that makes the skin of live mice temporarily transparent using a common yellow food dye.

December 4, 2024 | Physics World

Metasurface makes thermal sources emit laser-like light

We are proud to share that PI Andrea Alù's group has been featured in Physics World for their pioneering work on metasurfaces, enabling thermal sources to emit laser-like light.

December 2, 2024 | Clarivate

Andrea Alù has been selected as a 2024 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate

October 30, 2024 | Stanford Report

Researchers make mouse skin transparent using a common food dye

New research from PI Mark Brongersma’s group, featured in Stanford News, demonstrates a technique for making mouse skin temporarily transparent using the yellow food dye tartrazine—paving the way for advanced, non-invasive biomedical imaging.

October 17, 2024 | Caltech News

Nanoscale Device Simultaneously Steers and Shifts Frequency of Optical Light, Pointing the Way to Future Wireless Communication Channels

August 22, 2024 | IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society

Nader Engheta receives 2024 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator award

Congratulations to Nader Engheta for being awarded the 2024 IEEE AP-S Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator award. For lifelong dedication to electromagnetic education and mentoring and for pioneering and transformative innovations in numerous areas in electromagnetics and optics.

July 29, 2024 | Photonics Spectra

Andrea Alù Honored with IEEE Photonics Society Award

We are delighted to announce that Andrea Alù has been selected as the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society’s 2024 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award.

July 1, 2024 | Physics Today

Harvard Team's Breakthrough in Single-Shot Polarization Imaging

Physics Today featured PI Federico Capasso's group for developing an imaging system that captures polarization states of light in one shot using optical metamaterials, enabling practical applications like cancer screening.

May 21, 2024 | Physics World

Metasurfaces make a single-shot polarization imaging system

April 30, 2024 | Academia Europaea

Nader Engheta elected as new member of Academia Europaea

We're honored to announce that Nader Engheta has been elected as a Foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 2024, joining over 5000 eminent scholars from across Europe and various disciplines.

April 24, 2024 | Nature Photonics

Reviving holographic photonic integration

April 22, 2024 | Optica

Spotlight on Optics: Analog Image Processing with Nonlinear Nonlocal Flat Optics

March 29, 2024 | Physics

Metamaterials for Analog Optical Computing

March 25, 2024 | Penn Today

New chip opens door to AI computing at light speed

March 25, 2024 | Physics World

Photonic metastructure does vector–matrix multiplication

March 21, 2024 | Optica

Andrea Alù receives Max Born Award from Optica

Congratulations to Andrea Alù for being awarded the prestigious Max Born Award in recognition of his groundbreaking work in linear, nonlinear, and nonreciprocal photonic metamaterials!

March 18, 2024 | Harvard

The metalens meets the stars

March 4, 2024 | IEEE Spectrum

Faster, More Secure Photonic Chip Boosts AI Training > Optical computing can perform matrix computations at the speed of light

February 12, 2024 | Stanford Report

Shanhui Fan elected to the 2024 class of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

We're honored to announce that Shanhui Fan has been elected to the 2024 class of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He was elected for his contributions to demonstrating that “the coldness of space” relative to Earth can be a major energy source for humankind.