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What Nature Cannot Provide, Engineers Invent
| By Ed Stiles - November 13, 2009, 9:00 am
During the early 20th century, engineers and physicists focused on exploiting the properties of naturally occurring materials. In other words, their work accommodated materials’ properties.
Today, engineers and physicists have turned this research model on its head by creating new materials with properties that don’t occur in nature, essentially building materials to fit their design needs.
Metamaterials are one new class of synthetic materials that are creating excitement in electromagnetics and acoustics.
The name comes from a workshop sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, in November 1999, with “meta” meaning “beyond.”
Professor Richard Ziolkowski, of UA Electrical and Computer Engineering, was one of the participants at that workshop, and he has been at the leading edge of meta ...... (read more) |  | | A snapshot in time of one of the first finite difference time domain simulations of negative refraction. This image is on the cover of the author's book, Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations.
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Thomas L. Vincent
PhD/AE 1963
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