"The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone."
Lao Tzu

 

Prof. Dentcho A. Genov
Assistant Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering
Louisiana Tech University

  • Office: Engineering Annex, Room 220
  • Phone: (318) 257-4190, Fax: (318) 257-2777
  • E-mail: dgenov@LaTech.edu

 
    

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Electromagnetic properties of nano-structured complex media including: metal composites, rough surfaces, fractal aggregates, and ordered media
  • Solid state and condensed matter physics: geometrical phase transitions, scaling theory, classical and quantum wave localization
  • Nanophotonics and quantum optics, nonlinear optics and spectroscopy, quantum dots, nanoscopic lasers and optical elements
  • Artificial materials: metamaterials and negative index media, electric and magnetic plasmons, electromagnetic cloacking
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Conference Presentations: The Louisiana Academy of Sciences, 85th Annual Meeting

Date of presentations: Saturday, February 26, 2011

Session: Chemistry and Physics Title of talk 1:"Casimir-Polder Force Reversal With Air as Intermediate Medium using Metamaterials"

Ranked"Best Graduate Oral Presentation"

Session: Chemistry and Physics Title of talk 2:"Design of a Generic Cloaking Device"

 

 

HIGHLIGHTS

News and Views Article:"Optical black-hole analogues" , was published in the February 2011 issue of Nature Photonics magazine. (February 2011 - Vol 5).

Our paper on "Mimicking celestial mechanics in metamaterials" , was featured by numerous USA and foreign media. It is also featured on the cover of Nature Physics magazine (September 2009 - Vol 5 No 9).

Our paper on "Negative Index Metamaterials", was published in the September 2008 issue of Nature magazine.

Our "Matter wave cloacking" work was highlighted in the March issue of Physics Today (2008).

 		 

 

 

 

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