Nader Engheta

Nader Engheta
Nader Engheta
Engheta in August 2022
Born (1955-10-08) 8 October 1955 (age 69)[1]
Alma mater
AwardsGuggenheim 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
FieldsPhysics, electrical engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
ThesisOn the Radiation Patterns of Interfacial Antennas (1982)
Doctoral advisorCharles H. Papas

Nader Engheta (Persian: نادر انقطاع) (born 1955 in Tehran) 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.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Nader Engheta
  2. ^ University of Pennsylvania. ScholarlyCommons: Repository. Author Nader Engheta.
  3. ^ Research Interests Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine. University of Pennsylvania. February 2011.
  4. ^ "Research Interests". U Penn. Archived from the original (web page) on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2012-06-23.