Nader Engheta
Nader Engheta | |
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Engheta in August 2022 | |
| Born | October 8, 1955 |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1999) IEEE Electromagnetics Award (2012) Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from URSI (2014) SPIE Gold Medal (2015) IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology (2018) Max Born Award (2020) Isaac Newton Medal (2020) Franklin Medal (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, electrical engineering |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | On the Radiation Patterns of Interfacial Antennas (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles H. Papas |
Nader Engheta (Persian: نادر انقطاع; born October 8, 1955) is an Iranian-American scientist. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of metamaterials, transformation optics, plasmonic optics, nanophotonics, graphene photonics, nano-materials, nanoscale optics, nano-antennas and miniaturized antennas, physics and reverse-engineering of polarization vision in nature, bio-inspired optical imaging, fractional paradigm in electrodynamics, and electromagnetics and microwaves.