Francesco Monticone

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Selected Press Interest and Highlights on My Research

• S. Wills, “Probing the Limits of Broadband Cloaking,” Optics and Photonics News, July 6, 2016. 

• J. Amatulli, “We Probably Won’t Have Human Invisibility Cloaks, Because Physics,” Huffington Post, July 6, 2016.

• M. Byrne, “You Will Never Be Invisible,” VICE – Motherboard, July 6, 2016.

• F. MacDonald, “The Laws of Physics Make a Human Invisibility Cloak Pretty Much Impossible,” Science Alert, Business Insider, July 6, 2016.

• “Researchers determine fundamental limits of invisibility cloaks,” Nanowerk, July 6, 2016.

• L. D’Monte, “Will we ever have a true invisibility cloak?,” Live Mint, July 16, 2016.

• S. Liverani, “Science of ‘invisibility cloaks’ has real possibilities—and real limitations,” The American Ceramic Society News, July 8, 2016.

• J. Collver, “Invisibility is possible but probably not for people,” Science Focus, July 7, 2016.

• “Just Like Harry Potter: Can We Really Make Human-Scale Objects Invisible?,” Sputnik, July 7, 2016.

• “Quantitative Framework for Cloaking Devices’ Performance Set by Scientists,” AZO Optics, July 7, 2016.

• Jamie A., “Real-Life Invisibility Cloak? Physics Points Out The Limits of an Invisibility Device,” Nature World News, July 7, 2016.

• “Las leyes de la física impiden capas de invisibilidad a escala humana,” Europa Press, July 6, 2016.

• “Researchers determine fundamental limits of invisibility cloaks,” Physics.org, July 5, 2016.

• “Invisibility Exposed: Physical Bounds on Passive Cloaking,” UT ECE News, July 5, 2016.

• S. Zaragoza, “Researchers Determine Fundamental Limits of Invisibility Cloaks,” UT Austin Press Release, EurekAlert!,  July 5, 2016.

• “Francesco Monticone Receives WNCG Student Leadership Award“, UT WNCG News, June 24 2016.

• “Francesco Monticone awarded the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship,”  UT ECE News, July 24, 2015.

• “Ultrathin Pancharatnam-Berry Metasurface with Maximal Cross-Polarization Efficiency,”  UT WNCG News, February 4, 2015.

• “UT ECE Graduate Student Francesco Monticone Receives Homer Lindsey Bruce Graduate Fellowship,”  UT ECE News, October 3, 2014.

• “Student Francesco Monticone receives Honorable Mention in IEEE Student Paper Competition,”  UT WNCG News, August 11, 2014.

• “Active Cloak is the Most Broadband to Date,” Photonics Spectra, March 2014.

• “Computational Metamaterials” , UT WNCG News, March 26, 2014

• R. Suba, “Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak can do analog computing, claim researchers,” Tech Times, January 18, 2014.

• Evan Lerner,  “Metamaterials that do math,” Penn Current, January 16, 2014.

• J. Hecht, “Analog Computing with Metamaterials,” Laser Focus World, January 12, 2014.

• J. Emspak, “ ‘Invisibility’ Materials Could Do Computer’s Work,” NBC News, January 12, 2014.

• P. Beart, “ ‘Invisibility’ Materials Could Perform Calculations As Well,” French Tribune, January 11, 2014.

• Edd Gent, “Light at the End of the Tunnel for Analog Computing,” Engineering and Technology Magazine, January 10, 2014.

• A. Sihvola, “Enabling Optical Analog Computing with Metamaterials,” Science, Vol. 343, No. 6167, pp. 144-145, January 10, 2014.

• J. Emspak, “ ‘Invisibility’ Materials Could Do Computer’s Work,” Live Science, January 10, 2014.

• J. Aoron, “First Light-Bending Calculator Designed with Metamaterials,” New Scientist, January 10, 2014.

• “Computer analogici: dai materiali dei mantelli dell’invisibilità una tecnologia per elaborare la luce,” La Repubblica, January 10, 2014

• “Dai mantelli dell’invisibilità i nuovi computer,” ANSA, January 10, 2014.

• “New study helps lay out theory for metamaterials that act as an analog computer,” NanoWerk, January 10, 2014.

• “Metamaterials Could be Designed to do ‘Photonic Calculus’,” AzoNano, January 10, 2014.

• “Researchers Lay Out Theory for Metamaterials that Act as an Analog Computer,” UT Austin Press Release, Phys.org, January 9, 2014.

• Sandra Zaragoza, “Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloak,” UT News, December 18, 2013.

• S. Afzal, “New ‘Active’ Invisibility Cloak Shields Across Light Frequencies,” Mashable, December 5, 2013.

• E. Coyne, “UT researcher continues to break ground on the possibility of invisibility,” The Horn, November 15, 2013.

• C. Moore, “UT Austin Scientists Transitioning Invisibility Cloaking Technology From Science Fiction To Reality,” Bio News Texas, November 12, 2013.

• M. Thompson, “Disappearing Act,” Time Magazine, November 19, 2013.

• B. Terris, “We’re Getting Really Close to Making a Superpower Reality,” National Journal, November 19, 2013.

• B. Dodson, “Oops! Invisibility cloaks actually make objects easier to see,” Gizmag, November 13, 2013.

• B. Wolford, “Real-Life Invisibility Cloak Is Science, Not Magic; New Design Nearly Makes Objects Vanish,” International Science Times, November 12, 2013.

• “Quest For ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Remains Elusive, Or So It Appears” , RedOrbit, November 12, 2013. [Featured Article]

• J. Morgan, “New ‘invisibility cloak’ type designed,” BBC News, November 11, 2013.

• S. Griffiths, “Most invisibility cloaks make objects MORE noticeable: Scientists admit they are struggling to create the elusive disguise,” Daily Mail, November 8, 2013.

• C. Q. Choi, “Hey wizards! Those invisibility cloaks make you even more visible,” NBC News, November 7, 2013. 

• Ian Randall, “Do cloaked objects shine brightly?,”  Physics World, November 7, 2013.
  

• C. Q. Choi, “Wizards, Take Note: Invisibility Cloaks Make You More Visible,” Live Science, November 7, 2013.

• “Francesco Monticone Receives an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award“,  UT ECE News, November 7, 2013.

• “WNCG Student Monticone and Professor Alu Receive Best Student Paper Award at Metamaterials 2013“, UT WNCG News, November 5, 2013.

• “Francesco Monticone and Prof. Andrea Alu Receive Best Student Paper Award at Metamaterials 2013“,  UT ECE News, September 30, 2013.

• L. Zyga, “Meta-Transmitarray Offers Unprecedented Control of Light on Subwavelength Scales,” Phys.org, May 30, 2013.

• P. Nordlander, “The Dark Side of the Ring,” Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 8, pp. 76-77, Jan. 27, 2013.

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