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Clarkson partners up for new NSF materials research center

Posted 3/3/11

POTSDAM -- Clarkson University is part of a new National Science Foundation Industry and University Cooperative Research Center on metamaterials. The center, recently approved by the National Science …

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Clarkson partners up for new NSF materials research center

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POTSDAM -- Clarkson University is part of a new National Science Foundation Industry and University Cooperative Research Center on metamaterials.

The center, recently approved by the National Science Foundation following an earlier NSF grant to plan the center, is a partnership among Professor S.V. Babu of the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) at Clarkson University and faculty from City University of New York and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The mission of the new center is to advance fundamental and applied metamaterials research, development, and technology transfer through industry and university collaborations.

Its main goal is to provide a nexus for the design, fabrication, and testing of a wide range of materials for use in electromagnetic spectrum regions from microwave to visible light.

Metamaterials are patterned composite structures in which light behaves in unusual ways, including negative index of refraction, anomalous light transmission, and light channeling and trapping. These materials can also exhibit unusual properties in other spectral regions.

Industrial interest in these materials is growing, as they can be used to develop new or higher performing optics and electronics, such as in energy harvesting, imaging, plasmonic circuits, cloaking materials, biological and chemical sensors, compact optical systems and enhanced RF technologies.

There is more about Industry and University Cooperative Research Centers at http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/iucrc.