2009 MRS Fall Meeting (Metamaterials Session)

The Metamaterials session of the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting started today, at the Hynes Convention center, in Boston.

Good opening talk by Martin Wegener, who talked about his Gold Helix Metamaterial, and showed impressive ray tracing images of the carpet cloak. Like me, he's a fan of 3D ray tracing.

Overall, it was a very productive day. I also gave a talk entitled "Superresolution Imaging Using Bulk Nanowires Metamaterials at Optical Frequencies" in lieu of my colleague who couldn't present his own talk on transformation optics since he was sick.

I presented the first demonstration of the reconstruction of subwavelength features of an object, over a record distance of more than 6 times the wavelength by a nanolens made up of bulk metamaterials of nanowires, and with a resolution of at least wavelength/4. This is considered a significant breakthrough and was well received by the metamaterials community. We recently submitted the paper and are impatiently awaiting its publication. We strongly believe that this piece of work will get extensive media coverage.

Kudos to the session organizers/chairs Nader Engheta and Minas Tanielian.