Media Exposure and Press Articles

Alexander Schwanecke

… featuring some of Alexander Schwanecke's published research.

  1. Создано антизеркало для видимого света
    Editor
    Мембрана (membrana.ru), 11 January 2007
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    Не существовавший ранее в природе тип отражающей поверхности создали британские физики. Для невооружённого глаза новое зеркало отражает видимый свет так же, как обычное. Но на деле — принципиально по-другому. О достижении рапортуют Александр Шванеке (Alexander Schwanecke) и его коллеги из Центра нанофотоники университета Саутгемптона (NanoPhotonics Portfolio Centre).
  2. A new reflection in the mirror
    L. Mgrdichian
    PHYSORG.com, 10 January 2007
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    A research group has devised a new type of mirror that reverses the magnetic field of a light wave upon reflection, rather than its electric field, as regular mirrors do. Seems like a minor difference? It's not.
  3. Photonic Frontiers: metamaterials - Metamaterials do optical wonders
    J. Hecht
    Laser Focus World 42 (7), July 2006
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    Arrays of many small elements spaced at subwavelength intervals can have strange optical properties, such as negative refractive index, not available from natural bulk materials.
  4. Time-reversal symmetry broken
    Editor World News
    Laser Focus World 40 (2), February 2004
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    A collaboration led by researchers at the University of Southampton (Southampton, England) has demonstrated that a two-dimensionally patterned nonmagnetic metamaterial can produce effects that are not time invariant. In experiments, polarized light was found to produce different far-field patterns when reflecting from flat structures whose only difference was the "handedness" of the patterns etched onto them (the direction in which they were twisted). The results were not mirror images of each other and the difference between them was found to be sensitive to changes in the incoming polarization. After ruling out other possible sources of asymmetry, the team believes its evidence of broken time-reversal symmetry is unambiguous.