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News Release 15-037
The National Science Foundation names engineering researcher Andrea Alù its Alan T. Waterman awardee for 2015
Alù is a pioneer in the field of metamaterials who has developed "cloaking" technology to make objects invisible to sensors
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Andrea Alù is the David and Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin. He is also KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Science) Visiting Professor at the AMOLF Institute in Amsterdam.
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
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Alù is an innovator in metamaterials--artificial materials with properties and wave interactions not found in nature--and plasmonics, or the study of how light interacts with the surface of nanoscale objects.
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
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Alù speaking at UT Austin's "Celebrating the Past: Powering the Future" event in 2014.
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
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