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2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
111
Citations
55221
World Ranking
93
National Ranking
46

Materials Science

D-Index
103
Citations
49412
World Ranking
906
National Ranking
299

Physics

D-Index
114
Citations
55646
World Ranking
1009
National Ranking
536

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Max Born Award, Optical Society
  • 2020 - Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal, Institute of Physics (IOP) for groundbreaking innovation and transformative contributions to electromagnetic complex materials and nanoscale optics, and for pioneering development of the fields of near-zero-index metamaterials, and material-inspired analogue computation and optical nanocircuitry
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2011 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For development of concepts of metamaterialinspired optical lumped nanocircuits, and for ground breaking contributions to the fields of metamaterials, plasmonic nanooptics, biologicallyinspired imaging, and electrodynamics
  • 1999 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1996 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the electromagnetic theory of complex media.
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Nader Engheta is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science. The subfields of study related to their work comprise Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; and Aerospace Engineering.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics

They have coauthored numerous publications with several frequent collaborators, notably:

  • Víctor Pacheco-Peña
  • Andrea Alú
  • Iñigo Liberal
  • Diego M. Solís
  • Brian Edwards

Engheta's contributions have been published extensively across various venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Physical Review. B./Physical Review. B
  • Nanophotonics
  • ACS Photonics

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Engheta are:

  • Roadmap for Optical Metasurfaces, 2024, ACS Photonics
  • Antireflection temporal coatings, 2020, Optica
  • Temporal aiming, 2020, Light Science & Applications
  • Metamaterials with high degrees of freedom: space, time, and more, 2020, Nanophotonics
  • Diffractive optical computing in free space, 2024, Nature Communications

In addition to journal articles, Engheta has authored books published by SPIE, with titles including Metamaterials-by-Design: Theory, Technologies, and Vision (2024).

Recognition of Engheta's work includes various fellowships and awards such as:

  • Max Born Award, Optical Society (2020)
  • Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal, Institute of Physics (IOP) (2020), for innovation and contributions to electromagnetic complex materials and nanoscale optics
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2015)
  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2015)
  • SPIE Fellow (2011)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (2008), for development of concepts in metamaterial-inspired optical lumped nanocircuits
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1999)
  • IEEE Fellow (1996), for contributions to the electromagnetic theory of complex media
  • Member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

  • Metamaterials: Physics and Engineering Explorations

    Nader Engheta;Richard W. Ziolkowski

  • Transformation Optics Using Graphene

    Ashkan Vakil;Nader Engheta

  • Achieving transparency with plasmonic and metamaterial coatings

    Andrea Alù;Andrea Alù;Nader Engheta

  • Tunneling of electromagnetic energy through subwavelength channels and bends using ε-near-zero materials

    Mário Silveirinha;Nader Engheta

  • Circuits with Light at Nanoscales: Optical Nanocircuits Inspired by Metamaterials

    Nader Engheta

  • Epsilon-near-zero metamaterials and electromagnetic sources: Tailoring the radiation phase pattern

    Andrea Alù;Mário G. Silveirinha;Mário G. Silveirinha;Alessandro Salandrino;Nader Engheta

  • Performing mathematical operations with metamaterials.

    Alexandre Silva;Francesco Monticone;Giuseppe Castaldi;Vincenzo Galdi

  • Improved Size-Tunable Synthesis of Monodisperse Gold Nanorods through the Use of Aromatic Additives

    Xingchen Ye;Linghua Jin;Humeyra Caglayan;Jun Chen

  • Far-field subdiffraction optical microscopy using metamaterial crystals: Theory and simulations

    Alessandro Salandrino;Nader Engheta

  • Experimental verification of epsilon-near-zero metamaterial coupling and energy squeezing using a microwave waveguide.

    Brian Edwards;Andrea Alù;Michael E. Young;Mário Silveirinha;Mário Silveirinha

  • Near-zero refractive index photonics

    Iñigo Liberal;Nader Engheta

  • Circuit Elements at Optical Frequencies: Nanoinductors, Nanocapacitors, and Nanoresistors

    Nader Engheta;Alessandro Salandrino;Alessandro Salandrino;Andrea Alù;Andrea Alù

  • An idea for thin subwavelength cavity resonators using metamaterials with negative permittivity and permeability

    N. Engheta

  • Pairing an epsilon-negative slab with a mu-negative slab: resonance, tunneling and transparency

    A. Alu;N. Engheta

  • A positive future for double-negative metamaterials

    Nader Engheta;R.W. Ziolkowski

  • Experimental realization of an epsilon-near-zero metamaterial at visible wavelengths

    Ruben Maas;James Parsons;Nader Engheta;Albert Polman

  • The fast multipole method (FMM) for electromagnetic scattering problems

    N. Engheta;W.D. Murphy;V. Rokhlin;M.S. Vassiliou

  • Inverse-designed metastructures that solve equations

    Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri;Brian Edwards;Nader Engheta

  • Digital Metamaterials

    Cristian Della Giovampaola;Nader Engheta

  • Multifrequency Optical Invisibility Cloak with Layered Plasmonic Shells

    Andrea Alù;Nader Engheta

  • Electromagnetic wave propagation through a dielectric–chiral interface and through a chiral slab

    S. Bassiri;C. H. Papas;N. Engheta

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Alù
Andrea Alù City University of New York
Mário G. Silveirinha
Mário G. Silveirinha University of Lisbon
Nikolay I. Zheludev
Nikolay I. Zheludev University of Southampton
Edward N. Pugh
Edward N. Pugh University of California, Davis
Lucio Vegni
Lucio Vegni Roma Tre University
Miguel Beruete
Miguel Beruete Universidad Publica De Navarra
Yue Li
Yue Li Tsinghua University
Filiberto Bilotti
Filiberto Bilotti Roma Tre University
Richard W. Ziolkowski
Richard W. Ziolkowski University of Arizona
Cherie R. Kagan
Cherie R. Kagan University of Pennsylvania

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