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Premio CST 2012 a la mejor publicación universitaria.
Investigadores del Laboratorio de Ondas Milimétricas, Terahercios, y Plasmónica de la Universidad Pública de Navarra galardonados con el premio "CST University Publication Award for 2012" por el paper: "Beamforming by Left-Handed Extraordinary Transmission Metamaterial Bi- and Plano-Concave Lens at Millimeter-Waves". Read all

Miguel Durán-Sindreu obtiene el premio "Young Engineer" en la EuMC 2012
Miguel Durán-Sindreu, investigador de CIMITEC, ha obtenido el Young Engineer Prize de la European Microwave Conference 2012, celebrada en Amsterdam entre el 29 de octubre y el 1 de noviembre, con el trabajo "Novel Fully-Planar Extended-Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission Line based on Substrate Integrated Waveguide for Multi-Band Applications". El premio galardona el mejor trabajo presentado en la conferencia por un investigador de hasta 30 años.

Seis investigadores de la UPNA ganan el Premio Talgo a la Innovación Tecnológica.
Un grupo de investigadores de la Universidad Pública de Navarra ha obtenido el Premio Talgo a la Innovación Tecnológica con el proyecto “Implementación de un entorno de inteligencia ambiental para el ecosistema ferroviario”. Read all

Ferran Paredes obtiene uno de los premios Sant Jordi 2012 del "Institut d'estudis catalans"
Ferran Paredes, investigador de CIMITEC, ha obtenido el Premio IEC de Ciencias de la Ingeniería Rafael Campalans en el marco del LXXXI Cartel de premios y de bolsas de estudio, premios Sant Jordi 2012, mediante los cuales se galardonan las mejores tesis o trabajos de investigación elaborados en lengua catalana, por su tesis titulada "Aplicació de les tecnologies metamaterials per a l’optimització de components per a sistemes d’identificació per radiofreqüència (RFID)" (Aplicación de las tecnologías metamaterial para la optimización de componentes para sistemas de identificación por radiofrecuencia (RFID))

Dos investigadores del CIMITEC, en el top 100 de su campo según Microsoft Academic.
Jordi Bonache y Ferran Martín, miembros del CIMITEC (Centro de TECNIO) y profesores del Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica de la UAB, figuran entre los 100 primeros investigadores en producción e impacto científico en el campo de la Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica, referido a los últimos 10 años, según el ranking de la herramienta de búsqueda Microsoft Academic Search. Read all

Ferran Martín, has been elevated to the degree of Fellow of the IEEE
Ferran Martín, Prof. of Electronics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, director of CIMITEC and member of EMET, has been elevated to the degree of Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to metamaterial-based transmission lines for microwave applications. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. 321 individuals have been elevated to IEEE Fellow for 2011.

La Politècnica de València crea un material que crea una capa invisible.
Unos investigadores de la Universitat Politècnica de València han fabricado un material nuevo con propiedades nunca vistas: de hecho una de sus aplicaciones podría ser convertir en invisibles objectos. Con el material nuevo que han conseguido se podría crear una capa invisible. Si esa capa se utiliza para cubrir un objecto, en principio, de tamaño pequeño, como un microchip, resultaría invisible a la vista. See video

Hacer algo invisible ya no es ciencia ficción.
Se puede conseguir con nano-materiales, elementos que están desarrollando en la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. La revista científica "Nature" reconoce esta investigación como una de las más importante de los últimos 10 años. See video

Acoustic cloaking device echoes advances in optical cloaking..
Sound waves that would normally bounce and scatter off objects may be coaxed into slipping past them as if they weren’t there, according to a new study that suggests the potential of an acoustical cloaking device. Read all

Miguel Navarro-Cia - Raj Mittra Travel Grant Awards.
Two 2011 Raj Mittra Travel Grants (RMTG) exist to encourage conference participation by one young and one established doctoral scientist by supporting their travel to attend the joint 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting in Spokane, Washington, USA, July 3-8, 2011. Read all

Miguel Navarro Cia (Universidad Pública de Navarra) - COIT/AEIT awardee for Best Doctoral Thesis in Basic Principles and Technologies of Information and Communications, and Applications.
The Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers was pleased to report on May 27th 2011 that the "Best Doctoral Thesis in Basic Principles and Technologies of Information and Communications, and Applications" recipient corresponding to the XXXI Edition of Awards "Telecommunication Engineers" 2010 is Dr. Miguel Navarro-Cia. The awards ceremony took place on June 22nd in the Spanish Institute of Engineering. The event was chaired by the President of the Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers, Eugenio Oñate Fontan, and the ceremony was closed by the director of the Center for Industrial Technological Development, Arturo Azcorra Saloña.
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A Consolider paper is the cover of the "American Journal of Physics" April issue.
The paper: "Demonstration of negative refraction of microwaves" by University of Seville (partner of Consolider).

Meta-Flex: Your New Brand For Invisibility Clothing.
Flexible smart materials that can manipulate light to shield objects from view have been much-theorised but now researchers in Scotland have made a practical breakthrough that brings the possibility of an invisibility… read all

The Ph.D. student at University of Seville José Miguel Algarín Guisado has been awarded the "Young Scientist Prize URSI 2010" during the Closing Ceremony of the XXVth Simposium Nacional de la URSI.
This prize corresponds to the paper entitled: "Lentes de permeabilidad -1: Resolución y Aplicación en la Imagen por Resonancia Magnética en Paralelo" (in Spanish) which was co-authored by Manuel Freire, Ricardo Marqués and Marcos López (Microwaves Group of the University of Seville).
The prize for young scientists (below 35 years old) is awarded on an annual basis by the Scientific Committee of the Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI). The 2010 issue of the national simposium organized by this society (the most important conference in the field in Spain) was held during the month of September in Bilbao (Spain). More than 250 papers authored by more than 750 authors were presented. The awarded paper was chosen among a reduced number of finalists who presented their papers in a special session. Conference website

Prof. Ricardo Marqués Sillero (University of Seville), leader of the GM-US, partner of EMET Consolider project, has been the Chair of the Technical Programme Committee of the IV Metamaterials Conference
The Fourth International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, held the past month of September in Karlsruhe (Germany), organized by the European Network of Excellence Metamorphose, attracted more than 380 participants and 314 papers were presented during the four days of the conference, with authors coming from 44 countries. Spanish researchers contributed 29 papers, thus making our country the fourth (after USA, Germany and UK) in number of contributions. Conference website

Francisco Medina Mena, member of the EMET team in the University of Seville, has been elevated this year to the grade of IEEE Fellow
The IEEE Board of Directors elevated Francisco Medina to IEEE Fellow with the following citation: "for contributions to the analysis and physical understanding of planar structures, anisotropic media, and metamaterials".
The MTT Society has also promoted to the grade of IEEE Fellow another researcher in the metamaterials field: Prof. Christophe Caloz (École Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada). This is indicative of the importance of metamaterials research in modern microwave engineering practice. Read all

Invisibility Visualized: Software For Rendering Cloaked Objects Developed
Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now… read all

Metamaterials Arrive in Cellphones
The quest to build more-powerful multiband mobile handsets has gotten a boost from a relatively new class of materials. Called metamaterials, they are specifically engineered to have properties that do not occur naturally… read all

Acoustic Hyperlens Could Sharpen Ultrasound Imaging
In the past few years, researchers have created artificial materials known as metamaterials, which bend and focus light in unnatural ways. While a microscope’s glass lens can detect only objects larger than… read all

Nanoetiquetas contra la “piratería”
Fabricadas con metamateriales se pueden aplicar a billetes, documentos, prendas de marca, u obras de arte. La lucha contra la piratería hoy tan en boga en su acepción de copia fraudulenta cuenta con… read pdf

More illusory than invisible
Optical cloaking, a phenomenon that once only had connotations of Hollywood and science fiction, recently moved from fantasy to reality. In 2006, researchers effectively rendered an object invisible by sheathing… read all

“Invisibility Cloak” That Hides Objects From View Developed
The great science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously noted the similarities between advanced technology and magic. This summer on the big screen, the young wizard Harry Potter will once again don his magic… read all

Scientists Closer To Making Invisibility Cloak A Reality
J.K. Rowling may not have realized just how close Harry Potter's invisibility cloak was to becoming a reality when she introduced it in the first book of her best-selling fictional series in 1998. Scientists… read all