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December 9, 2025 | Clarivate

Andrea Alù has been selected as a 2025 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate.

September 19, 2025 | Harvard SEAS

Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors?

We’re excited to highlight new research from PI Federico Capasso’s group at Harvard, featured in Harvard SEAS News. Their team demonstrated that ultra-thin metasurfaces can entangle photons on a chip, blending theory and precision experiments to open new possibilities for quantum information…

September 15, 2025 | Simons Foundation

Andrea Alù elected Senior Fellow of the Simons Society of Fellows

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Andrea Alù has been elected as a Senior Fellow of the Simons Society of Fellows, in recognition of his groundbreaking contributions across applied electromagnetics, nano-optics, and polaritonics. The Simons Society honors scientists with distinguished…

September 1, 2025 | Engheta Group News

Nader Engheta Receives 2025 Rolf Landauer Medal

We are honored to share that PI Nader Engheta has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Rolf Landauer Medal from the ETOPIM Association (Elastic, Electrical, Transport, and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media Association).

August 29, 2025 | Metamorphose Website

Nader Engheta Elected President of METAMORPHOSE VI

We are excited to share that PI Nader Engheta has been elected President of the METAMORPHOSE Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials. His three-year term runs from May 2025, through May 2028.

July 11, 2025 | Stanford News

Shanhui Fan elected to National Academy of Sciences

We re honored to announce that Shanhui Fan was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2025, recognizing his exceptional achievements in photonics, including innovative work on thermal and quantum optical systems.

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 7, 2025 | Science Daily

Metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light

Researchers have created a bilayer metasurface made of two stacked layers of titanium dioxide nanostructures, opening new possibilities for structuring light.

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

A reconfigurable metastructure for wave-based matrix maths

March 21, 2025 | Optics and Photonics News

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 31, 2024 | Science Daily

Scientists make tissue of living animals see-through

In a pioneering new study, researchers made the skin on the skulls and abdomens of live mice transparent by applying to the areas a mixture of water and a common yellow food coloring called tartrazine.

October 31, 2024 | nature

Transparent mice made with light-absorbing dye reveal organs at work

A method that renders skin temporarily see-through could offer researchers a non-invasive way to look inside the bodies of live mice.

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 25, 2024 | Tech Explorist

Caltech’s nanoscale device can reflect and direct light in desired ways

The innovation is pointing the way to future wireless communication channels.

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.