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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.

December 13, 2023 | ASCR News

Breaking Wave Symmetries: Researchers Design New Device to Make Light Waves Flow Only In One Direction

July 10, 2023 | Optica News

Light-based computing scheme reduces power needed to mine cryptocurrencies

July 10, 2023 | Penn Today

Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023

July 10, 2023 | Nature Materials

The limits of flatness

July 10, 2023 | Analytical Science

A revolutionary new meta-optics for microscopes

July 10, 2023 | Laser Focus World

Metalens controls light within the extreme ultraviolet realm

July 10, 2023 | Physics Today

Holey lens focuses extreme-UV radiation

July 10, 2023 | Phys.org

Ultra-fast light at the end of the vacuum tunnel: Meta-optics shows physical processes in the attosecond range

July 10, 2023 | Phys.org

New light sheet holography overcomes the depth perception challenge in 3D holograms

July 10, 2023 | Optics.org

Harvard SEAS develops new way to create holograms

May 24, 2023 | Caltech

Nader Engheta receives Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award

Congratulations to Nader Engheta for this recognition! 

April 20, 2023 | AAA&S

Nader Engheta elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Nader Engheta for being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!

January 29, 2023 | Penn Today

Nader Engheta receives Benjamin Franklin Medal

Congratulations to Nader Engheta for being selected for the prestigious 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering.

January 29, 2023 | Science

“Why optics needs thickness” – new paper by David Miller in Science

David Miller explores how to determine limits on optical thickness

March 15, 2022 | Optica

Shanhui Fan receives R.W. Wood Prize from Optica

Congratulations to Co-PI Shanhui Fan for being selected as the 2022 recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize from Optica.