Recent News
Congratulations to Yang Deng for Passing Milestone Examination
April 1, 2021
Congratulations Yang for passing the qualifying examination, the first milestone examination, in the Ph.D. program!
Padilla Student Awarded HSF Scholarship
December 11, 2020
Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for being selected to receive a scholarship from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund!
Ph.D. Candidate - Natalie Rozman
December 11, 2020
Congratulation to Natalie Rozman for successfully completing the preliminary examination and becoming a Ph.D. candidate!
Triangle Hard Matter Workshop 2020 Poster Session
December 8, 2020
Congratulations to Yang Deng, Nico Lozada-Smith and Natalie Rozman for presenting their posters at the virtual Triangle Hard Matter Workshop. Yang Deng won first place for the bst graduate student poster!
Incoming Ph.D Student
July 31, 2020
The Padilla lab just gained another excellent research scientist, Yang Deng! He recently received his M.S. from Duke Unviersity and plans on harnessing the power of machine learning to design unique metamaterials.
Padilla Student Awarded SPIE Scholarship
May 31, 2020
Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for being selected to receive the 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship.
FIP 2020 Poster Session
May 22, 2020
Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for winning 2nd place in Duke University's Fitzpatrick Institute of Photonic's Symposium Poster session. Her poster was titled "High-Quality Factor THz Metamaterial".
Congratulations to Yang Deng
March 11, 2020
Yang Deng recently defended his masters thesis, congratulations!
Machine Learning Finds New Metamaterial Designs for Energy Harvesting
September 27, 2019
The Pratt School of Engineering recently covered our latest publication, Deep Learning for Accelerated All-Dielectric Metasurface Design!
ITQW 2019 Poster Session
September 27, 2019
Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for presenting her poster "High-Quality Factor Bound-States-in-the-Continuum Modes for THz Biosensing" at the Infrared, Terahertz, and Quantum Workshop this month!
Congratulations to Dr. Nadell
June 9, 2019
Congratulations to Christian Nadell for defending his thesis today.
Farewell Dr. Caira
May 13, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Caira for graduating today. Dr. Caira recently accepted a postdoctoral research associate position at UNC where he will work on advanced optical imaging systems for neuroscience applications.
Congratulations to Dr. Caira
March 20, 2019
Congratulations to Nicholas Caira for defending his thesis today.
Dielectric Metamaterial is Dynamically Tuned by Light
May 1, 2018
Learn more about the Dielectric Metamaterial is Dynamically Tuned by Light!
Sloan Scholar: Natalie Rozman
May 1, 2018
Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for being awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Scholarship.
Dr. Padilla on Youtube
March 26, 2018
Willie Padilla, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, explains the various projects he is working on that uses metamaterials to manipulate electromagnetic waves in the terahertz region of the spectrum.
Absorbing Electromagnetic Energy While Avoiding the Heat
January 27, 2017
Read more about the demonstration of a metal-free metamaterial that can absorb electromagnetic energy at this link: Link.
Exploring Technology’s “Terahertz Gap”
August 12, 2014
Metamaterials expert Willie Padilla joined the electrical and computer engineering department of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering on July 1, 2014.