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Towne Stairs
Press Releases and News Reports about Research Programs in my Group
"Shopping for Cloaks," by the Editors, Nature Materials, May 2007, Vol. 6, p. 325
"Scientific American Article Names Researcher as One of Top 50 Technological Leaders," by Maria Callier, Air Force Office
  of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory Press Release, March 2, 2007.
"Dr. Engheta: Scientific American 50," Almanac, January 16, 2007.
"SEAS Prof. named a top-fifty scientist," by Mara Gordon, Daily Pennsylvanian, December 5, 2006.
"University of Pennsylvania’s Nader Engheta Named One of the ‘2006 Scientific American 50,’" by Greg Lester,
  University of Pennsylvania Office of University Communications Press Release, December 4, 2006.
"Scientific American 50: Trends in Research, Business and Policy" by George Musser, Scientific American.com,
  December, 2006
"Nanotechnology Pie," by Uri Friedman, Daily Pennsylvanian, November 14, 2006, page 5.
"Stepping out of the Shadows Using Polarized Light," by Hank Hogan, Photonics Spectra, October 2006.
"Metamaterials to Marvel Over," Jennifer Nath C’08, The Pennsylvania GAZETTE, July-August 2006, page 29.
"Out of Sight: Physicists get serious about invisibility shields," by Peter Weiss, Science News, week of July
  15, 2006, Vol 170, No. 3, page 42.
"Lumped Circuit Elements for Optical Frequencies," by Patricia Daukantas, Senior Writer/Editor, Optics and Photonics
  News (OPN), monthly magazine of Optical Society of America, Vol. 17, No. 6, p. 9, 2006.
"Two-Dimensional Light" by Phil Schewe and Ben Stein, Physics News Update Bulletin of Physics News of American
Institute of Physics (AIP) Number 770 #1, March 23, 2006
"Discovering Scientific Gold in Metamaterials" by Jessica Stein Diamond, Penn Engineering Alumni Magazine, Fall 2005.
"Electronics Run Using Light Instead of Electricity" Azonan.com (A to Z of Nanotechnology), September 28, 2005
"A Beam of Light on a Path of Gold to a Miniaturized World: Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements"
Nanotechnology Now, September 28, 2005
"A Beam of Light on a Path of Gold to a Miniaturized World" CCNmag.com (California Computer News)
September 28, 2005
"Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements" ScienceDaily, September 28, 2005
"Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements" PhysOrg.com, September 27, 2005
"A Beam of Light on a Path of Gold to a Miniaturized World: Penn Theorists to Create Optical Circuit Elements"
by Greg Lester, Office of University Communications, September 27, 2005
"Optical Method Lifts Detailed Fingerprints Without Touching the Surface" Ben Stein, OSA News, September 21, 2005
"Circuit Elements for Optical Frequencies" by Phil Schewe and Ben Stein, Physics News Update Bulletin of Physics News
of American Institute of Physics (AIP) Number 737 #1, July 14, 2005
"A disappearing theory" by Cici Zheng, Daily Pennsylvanian, March 29, 2005
"Ripples of light might make you invisible" by Jenny Hogan, New Scientist, March 5, 2005
"Eat your cloak out, Harry Potter" Guardian, March 3, 2005
"Not seeing is believing for invisibility cloak" by Roger Highfield, Daily Telegraph,
March 1, 2005
"Scientific wizards find real cloak of invisibility" by James Reynolds, The Scotsman, March 1 , 2005
"Engineers devise invisibility shield" by Philip Ball, Research Highlights, Nature Physics Portal, February 28, 2005
 "Now you see it, now you don't" by Robert Roy Britt, Live Science, MSNBC.com, February 28, 2005
"Polarization-Difference Imaging Stretches the Limits of Visibility", by Daniel J. Dufresne, Biophotonics International, Jan/Feb 1997, P. 34.
"As clear as mud to a fish" by Nigel Hawkes, London Times, June 3, 1996, p. 16.
"Sunfish Shows the Way Through the Fog" by Sunny Bains, Science, New Series, Vol. 272, No. 5262, May 3, 1996,
  p. 653