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Materials young investigator award winner.

Prof. Andrea Alù Awarded Inaugural Materials Young Investigator Award

Feb. 3, 2017
Andrea Alù, Texas ECE Professor, is the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. The award recipient must show exceptional promise as a developing leader in the materials area. Alù was the outstanding candidate, voted for by the evaluation committee of the Materials Investigator Award, out of 36 candidates who were each proposed by at least two other colleagues from the field of material science.
An image of a green and red laser.

UT ECE Researchers Invent ‘Meta Mirror’ to Help Advance Nonlinear Optical Systems

July 3, 2014
Image: Erik Zumalt, The University of Texas at Austin Profs. Andrea Alù and Mikhail Belkin in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new nonlinear metasurface, or meta mirror, that could one day enable the miniaturization of laser systems.