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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 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.