David Smith (physicist)

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David Richard Smith (* 1964 in Okinawa , Japan ) is an American physicist.

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Smith earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1988 and his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego . As a post-doctoral student , he worked there from 1994 to 1997 on the application of plasmon resonance for biological and biochemical analyzes. He then worked as a consultant for Seashell Technology in San Diego until 2002. Since 2001 he has been an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego. In 2004 he moved to Duke University , where he was associate professor and from 2007 full professor and since 2008 William Bevan Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering . He has also been visiting professor at Imperial College London since 2004 .

Smith does research on photonic crystals , metamaterials and plasmon nano-optics. In 2000 he discovered materials with a negative refractive index in the microwave range , which Wiktor Wesselago had predicted in 1967 . He later used these materials to make objects almost invisible in the microwave range .

Works

  • Edited with Tie Jun Cui and Ruopeng Liu: Metamaterials. Theory, Design, and Applications. Springer US, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-1-4419-0572-7

Awards

  • 2002 election to the Electromagnetics Academy
  • 2005 Descartes Prize (as a member of the EXCEL team)
  • 2005 Stansell Research Award (Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University)

literature

  • David R. Smith, Patrick Rye, David C. Vier, Anthony F. Starr, Jack J. Mock, Timothy Perram: Design and Measurement of Anisotropic Metamaterials that Exhibit Negative Refraction . In: IEICE Transactions on Electronics . E87 – C, no. 3 , March 2004, ISSN  0916-8516 , p. 359–370 ( First gold for the USA ( Memento from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 1,2 MB ] with a short biography on p. 370).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DR Smith, Willie J. Padilla, DC Vier, SC Nemat-Nasser and S. Schultz : Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity . In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 84, No. 18, 2000, pp. 4184-4187, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.84.4184 ; RA Shelby, DR Smith and S. Schultz: Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction. In: Science . Volume 292, No. 5514, April 6, 2001, pp. 77-79, doi : 10.1126 / science.1058847 .
  2. ↑ D. Schurig, JJ Mock, BJ Justice, SA Cummer, JB Pendry , AF Starr and DR Smith: Metamaterial electromagnetic cloak at microwave frequencies. In: Science . Volume 314, No. 5801, November 10, 2006, pp. 977-980, doi : 10.1126 / science.1133628
personal data
SURNAME Smith, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, David Richard (full name); Smith, David R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Okinawa , Japan