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Overview

Douglas H. Werner is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and materials science, with significant contributions to aerospace engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as biomedical engineering.

Their work covers a variety of specialized topics that include:

  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Antenna Design and Optimization

Douglas H. Werner has contributed extensively to scientific literature, including recent papers such as:

  • "Monolithic Full-Stokes Near-Infrared Polarimetry with Chiral Plasmonic Metasurface Integrated Graphene-Silicon Photodetector," 2020, ACS Nano
  • "Design for quality: reconfigurable flat optics based on active metasurfaces," 2020, Nanophotonics
  • "Nonlinear Chiral Meta-Mirrors: Enabling Technology for Ultrafast Switching of Light Polarization," 2020, Nano Letters
  • "1 Bit Dual-Linear Polarized Reconfigurable Transmitarray Antenna Using Asymmetric Dipole Elements With Parasitic Bypass Dipoles," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • "Low-Profile Strip-Loaded Textile Antenna With Enhanced Bandwidth and Isolation for Full-Duplex Wearable Applications," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Their frequent coauthors include Sawyer D. Campbell, Lei Kang, Eric B. Whiting, Wending Mai, and Pingjuan L. Werner.

Douglas H. Werner has published predominantly in venues such as:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (AP-S/URSI)
  • Optics Express
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Access

The scope of their research intersects engineering disciplines with materials science, focusing on developing and analyzing antenna technologies, metamaterials, and photonic structures. Their work contributes to a deeper understanding of electromagnetic waves, metasurface functionalities, and optical phenomena, with applications ranging from antenna design to wearable technology.

Best Publications

  • An overview of fractal antenna engineering research

    D.H. Werner;S. Ganguly

  • Particle swarm optimization versus genetic algorithms for phased array synthesis

    D.W. Boeringer;D.H. Werner

  • An introduction to genetic algorithms for electromagnetics

    R.L. Haupt

  • Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetics

    Randy L. Haupt;Douglas H. Werner

  • Fractal antenna engineering: the theory and design of fractal antenna arrays

    D.H. Werner;R.L. Haupt;P.L. Werner

  • The design synthesis of multiband artificial magnetic conductors using high impedance frequency selective surfaces

    D.J. Kern;D.H. Werner;A. Monorchio;L. Lanuzza

  • Frontiers in electromagnetics

    Douglas H. Werner;Raj Mittra

  • A Compact, Low-Profile Metasurface-Enabled Antenna for Wearable Medical Body-Area Network Devices

    Zhi Hao Jiang;Donovan Brocker;Peter E. Sieber;Douglas Henry Werner

  • Conformal dual-band near-perfectly absorbing mid-infrared metamaterial coating.

    Zhi Hao Jiang;Seokho Yun;Fatima Toor;Douglas H. Werner

  • The Wind Driven Optimization Technique and its Application in Electromagnetics

    Zikri Bayraktar;Muge Komurcu;Jeremy A. Bossard;Douglas H. Werner

  • Review of numerical optimization techniques for meta-device design [Invited]

    Sawyer D. Campbell;David Sell;Ronald P. Jenkins;Eric B. Whiting

  • Hybrid Resonators and Highly Tunable Terahertz Metamaterials Enabled by Vanadium Dioxide (VO 2 )

    Shengxiang Wang;Lei Kang;Douglas H. Werner

  • Optimization of thinned aperiodic linear phased arrays using genetic algorithms to reduce grating lobes during scanning

    M.G. Bray;D.H. Werner;D.W. Boeringer;D.W. Machuga

  • Reconfigurable and Tunable Metamaterials: A Review of the Theory and Applications

    Jeremiah P. Turpin;Jeremy A. Bossard;Kenneth L. Morgan;Douglas H. Werner

  • A Compact, Wideband Circularly Polarized Co-designed Filtering Antenna and Its Application for Wearable Devices With Low SAR

    Zhi Hao Jiang;Douglas H. Werner

  • Optical planar chiral metamaterial designs for strong circular dichroism and polarization rotation.

    Do Hoon Kwon;Pingjuan L. Werner;Douglas H. Werner

  • Hybrid metamaterials for electrically triggered multifunctional control

    Liu Liu;Lei Kang;Theresa S. Mayer;Douglas H. Werner

  • A genetic algorithm approach to the design of ultra‐thin electromagnetic bandgap absorbers

    D. J. Kern;D. H. Werner

  • Transformation Electromagnetics: An Overview of the Theory and Applications

    Do-Hoon Kwon;Douglas H Werner

  • Transformation optical designs for wave collimators, flat lenses and right-angle bends

    Do Hoon Kwon;Douglas H. Werner

  • Nanosphere dispersed liquid crystals for tunable negative-zero-positive index of refraction in the optical and terahertz regimes

    I. C. Khoo;D. H. Werner;X. Liang;A. Diaz

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhi Hao Jiang
Zhi Hao Jiang Southeast University
Theresa S. Mayer
Theresa S. Mayer Purdue University West Lafayette
Do-Hoon Kwon
Do-Hoon Kwon University of Massachusetts Amherst
Raj Mittra
Raj Mittra Pennsylvania State University
Iam-Choon Khoo
Iam-Choon Khoo Pennsylvania State University
Alexander V. Kildishev
Alexander V. Kildishev Purdue University West Lafayette
Randy L. Haupt
Randy L. Haupt Colorado School of Mines
Andrea Massa
Andrea Massa University of Trento
Vladimir M. Shalaev
Vladimir M. Shalaev Purdue University West Lafayette
Giacomo Oliveri
Giacomo Oliveri University of Trento

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