Engineered Metamaterials enable remarkably small antennas.
Metamaterials are used in aerospace and other industries.
Penn engineers demonstrate Metamaterials that can solve equations.
Okay? He can re-order his carbon on his skin into metamaterial.
Such metamaterial devices could function as analog computers
that operate with light rather than electricity.
Such metamaterial devices would function as analog computers that operate with light,
rather than electricity.
As the field of Metamaterials developed, Engheta
and his team devised a way of bringing the concepts behind analog computing into the 21st century.
Researchers have found that Metamaterials could change the shape of an incoming light
wave in ways that have the same effect as performing calculations on a computer.
Cloaks are made from artificial materials, called Metamaterials, that have special properties enabling a better
control of the incoming wave, and can make an object invisible or transparent.
This is the part the Penn Engineering researchers are able to represent in a physical way, through the precise arrangement of air holes in their metamaterial Swiss cheese.
Publishing a theoretical outline for"photonic calculus" in Science in 2014,
they showed how a carefully designed metamaterial could perform mathematical operations on the profile of a wave
passing thought it, such as finding its first or second derivative.
Objective of the Program: The Metamaterials master's program does not only
give deep knowledge in fundamental physics, but also provides hands-on experience in laboratory work, technology, and numerical simulation methods that are essential for industry or academy career.