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QUEST leader wins IET A.F.Harvey Prize

26 Nov 2015

Prof Yang Hao, principle investigator for QUEST, has won the 2015 IET A.F.Harvey Prize worth £300,000

Exeter Microwave Metamaterials Meeting

22 Oct 2015

A two-day event on microwave metamaterials in Exeter has been announced

Themed Issue of Phil Trans A published online

28 Jul 2015

Themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A published, collected and edited by QUEST researchers

QUEST research on cover of Nature Photonics

13 Jul 2015

This month's Nature Photonics cover features an image from QUEST research on non-reflecting media

QUEST metamaterial with independent control of permittivity and permeability

17 Mar 2015

A metamaterial with independent control of permittivity and permeability has been reported in APL

Successful Royal Society Discussion Meeting held

3 Feb 2015

The Spatial Transformations Royal Society Scientific Discussion Meeting was a complete success

Royal Society Scientific Meeting

6 Jan 2015

The programme of speakers and topics is now available

European School of Antennas course announced

16 Dec 2014

A course, "Transformation Electromagnetics for Antenna Design", will be held in London

QUEST researchers publish metasurface review

2 Dec 2014

A review of plasmonic meta-atoms and metasurfaces has been published in Nature Photonics

QUEST research open day

23 Oct 2014

A successful day engaging with industry

QUEST research open day planned

2 Sep 2014

An open day for industry to be held in October

Surface wave illusions and cloaks

26 Aug 2014

Manipulating surface waves with transformations

Royal Society International Scientific Meeting

10 Jun 2014

A prestigious Royal Society International Scientific Meeting, organised by QUEST, has been announced

Sculpting surfaces to avoid impossible materials

9 May 2014

A simple way of avoiding zeros and singularities in materials for surface wave devices

Flat Luneburg Lens

8 Apr 2014

Directive antennas take up less space with a flat Luneburg lens

Flattening pyramidal absorbers

8 Apr 2014

A paper exploring coordinate transformations for absorbers has been published

Making geometrical optics exact

17 Mar 2014

Geometrical optics is usually an approximation to wave optics, but not always

Paper on spatially dispersive media published

17 Jan 2014

A theoretical paper examining the effect of spatial dispersion is published by New Journal of Physics

Paper on removing zeros and singularities from transformed media

19 Dec 2013

Techniques and examples for making practical devices using modified spatial transformations

QUEST partner to train next generation of metamaterials scientists

26 Nov 2013

EPSRC have awarded QUEST partners at the University of Exeter funds for a Centre for Doctoral Training in Metamaterials