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Community News - Transformation Optics for 2D materials

4 Mar 2014

2D materials, such as graphene, are characterised by surface conductivity rather than permittivity and permeability, but transformation optics can still be used to control waves

Community News - Smart Transformation Optics

17 Feb 2014

Combining electromagnetic and mechanical control of metamaterials

Community News - Thermal Cloaking

12 Feb 2014

Invisibility to heat not light

Community News - Analogue Computing with Metamaterials?

3 Feb 2014

Metamaterials can perform calculus on light

Community News - metamaterials in wireless power transfer

25 Jan 2014

Enhancement of inductive wireless power transfer

Community News - Electronics Letters turns 50

13 Jan 2014

The IET journal Electronics Letters celebrates its 50th birthday

Community news - localised invisibility

9 Dec 2013

Can selective invisibility cloaks be created, that only make some parts invisible?

Community News - can metamaterials make superconductors?

6 Dec 2013

Can metamaterial concepts help create superconductors that work at room temperature?

Community News - invisibility and medical applications of metamaterials

18 Nov 2013

A new approach to cloaking and using metamaterials for medical monitoring and therapy

Community News - metamaterial-based power harvesting of microwaves

14 Nov 2013

An RF rectifying array for wireless power transfer - and possibly harvesting too

Community News - scalable fabrication of optical metamaterials one step closer?

19 Oct 2013

Practical fabrication of optical metamaterials could be nearer with the development of a new technique.

Community News - Pendry awarded Springer Prize

14 Oct 2013

QUEST advisor Prof Sir John Pendry has been awarded the 2013 Springer prize for applied physics

Community News - World's First Quantum Metamaterial

7 Oct 2013

Metamaterials enable control of light - and now it can be done at a quantum level

Community News - Invisibility Cloaks

30 Sep 2013

Efforts towards cloaking continue around the world

Community News - Invisibility Cloak made in 15 minutes

16 Sep 2013

A cloaking device so simple it can be made in 15 minutes

Community news - Kymeta in the news again

9 Sep 2013

Metamaterial antennas for satellites - there is a market

Community News - Metamaterials in Imaging

2 Sep 2013

Metamaterials promise many things - Bill Gates seems to agree

Community News - Metamaterial antenna for SatCom

26 Aug 2013

Details of a metamaterial-based antenna for satellite communcations

Community News - Time-Cloak using Mirrors

19 Aug 2013

New website feature - metamaterials around the worldb

Community News - Pendry awarded IoP Newton Medal

1 Jul 2013

QUEST advisor Prof Sir John Pendry has been awarded the 2013 Newton Medal