Metamaterials - for Super-Lenses and Invisibility Cloaks from DC to Optics (Printed Electronics USA 2008)

Dr Wiltshire obtained his D.Phil. in solid state physics from Oxford University in 1973, where he remained as a Research Fellow. In 1978 he moved to the Australian National University, working on magnetic materials and neutron scattering, and then prepared the successful bid for the Australia Telescope at CSIRO.

 

He joined the GEC Hirst Research Centre in England in 1984 to develop liquid crystal displays and devices, and became Chief Scientist of Hirst LCD. In 1996 he transferred to GEC Marconi Materials Technology as Chief Engineer of the Emerging Technologies Group. He worked on uncooled infrared detectors, photonic crystals, and carried out experimental work on metamaterials.

 

He left Marconi in 2002, and is now a Principal Research Fellow at Imperial College London, where he concentrates on investigating metamaterials and their application in magnetic resonance imaging. He was a member of the EXEL team which won the European Union's Descartes Research Prize in 2005 for metamaterial research.

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