Our Work in the Press

Discussion of our work in scientific journals:

• “A Novel Architecture of Excluding Photons,“ Science News144, 199 (1993).
• “Using Micro fabrication Techniques on Photonic Bandgap Structures,“ Optics & Photonics News, March 1994, p. 52.
• "Light Gets the Bends in a Photonic Crystal," Science News 150, 309 (1996).
• “Infrared Photonic Crystals Fabricated using Deep x-ray Lithography,” Optical Engineering Reports, January 1998, p.7.
• "Visible Progress Made in three-dimensional Photonic Crystals," Physics Today, January 1999, p. 17.
• “Rod-connected diamond photonic crystal structure,” (http://stuff.mit.edu/people/maldovan/02-rod.html)
• “Layer by layer or woodpile photonic crystal structure,” (http://stuff.mit.edu/people/maldovan/04-woodpile.html)
• “Mind the gap and Bright Switch,” Wired Magazine, November 2000. (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.11/rants.html).
• “Random acts of brightness: From disordered systems comes coherent light,” December 2000. (http://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2000-12/dl-rao060502.php)
• “Manipulating Light in Photonic Crystals,” March 2001 (http://www.er.doe.gov/Sub/Accomplishments/Decades_Discovery/17.html)
• “Laser beams from scattered light – The big surprise,” May 2001 (http://www.external.ameslab.gov/Final/News/2001rel/01laserbeams.html)
• “Paint the town red: Want to brighten up your life? Grab a brush and a tin of laser paint,” New Scientist, 30 June 2001, p. 23.
• “Materials Aspects of Photonic Crystals,” MRS Bulletin, August 2001. (http://www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin/2001/aug/Aug01_Intro_Bios.pdf).
• “Costas Soukoulis honored by American Association for the Advancement of Science,”, November 2002. (http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/soukoulis.shtml).
• “Good news for negative index materials,” PhysicsWeb, March 2003. (http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/3/12).
• “Left handed but not in left field,” Science, 299, 1947 (March 28, 2003). (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/299/5615/1947b.pdf).
• “The reality of negative refraction,” Physics World, May 2003. (http://physicsweb.org/article/world/16/5/3).
• “Positively Negative,” Nature, 423, 22 (May 1, 2003).
• “Constantly throughout his career, Costas Soukoulis has been recognized for his professional work,” March 2003. (http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/soukoulis0324.shtml)
• “Recent results support the existence of negative refraction,” Materials Research News, May 2003. (http://www.mrs.org/geninfo/enews/enews200305.html#resnews)
• “New possibilities through negative refraction,” Optics and Photonic News, August 2003.
• “Light at the end of the tunnel,” Physical Review Focus, March 2004. (http://focus.aps.org/story/v13/st11).
• “Ames Lab. Physicist wins European’s Union highest science prize,” December 2005 (http://www.external.ameslab.gov/final/News/2005rel/Descartesaward.htm)
• “2005 European Union Descartes prize for research laureates,” December 2005. (http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/press/2005/pdf/pr02122005_annex_winners_dp_research2005_en.pdf)
• “Smith Shares Descartes Award for Artificial Material that Reverses Light’s Properties,”, December 2005. (http://www.pratt.duke.edu/news/releases/index.php?story=239)
• “Former UCSD Physicist Shares Descartes Award for Material that Reverses Light’s Properties,” December 2005. (http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mcdescartes.asp)
• “Reversing and accelerating the speed of light,” (http://www.ameslab.gov/final/News/2006rel/metamaterials.htm)
• “Reversing and accelerating the speed of light,” (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060721152533.htm)
• “Light goes faster in reverse,” (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/24/laser_metamaterial/)
• “Hacking the speed of light,” (http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20060623201434data_trunc_sys.shtml)
• “Invisibility? Metamaterials explained,” (http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=105487&ran=132986)
• “Left-handed materials take spectrum physics forward,” (http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/BrowsingType/Long%20Feature/Tpl/article/ID/82178)
• “Metamaterials found to work at optical wavelengths,” (http://www.ameslab.gov/final/News/2007rel/metamaterials.htm)
• “Metamaterials found to work for visible light,” (http://www.physorg.com/news87144852.html)
• “Fishnet metamaterial with negative refraction,” (http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2007/01/fishnet_metamat.html)
• “Metamaterials for cloaking gain visibility,” (http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196801564)
• “Optics: Invisibility cloak in sight,” (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7123/full/445004a.html)
• “Telecom triumph,” (http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vsample/nsample/full/nphoton.2006.3.html)
• “Photonic Frontiers: metamaterials - Metamaterials do optical wonders,” (http://lfw.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?article_id=259931)
• “Light zooms faster backwards,” (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1649585.htm)