Soukoulis and his team win the EU Descartes Prize 2005
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Congratulations to Costas Soukoulis
and his team for winning the prestigious EU Descartes Prize for
Excellence in Scientific Collaborative Research on December 2, 2005.
The EXEL (DALHM) team will receive 200,000 Euros for "developing a new
class of artificial meta-materials, called Left-Handed Materials or
Negative Index Materials, which have the ability to overturn many
familiar properties of light"
(http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/descartes/). From left to right: Stephan Linden* (U. Karlsruhe), Mike Wiltshire* (Imperial College), Maria Kafesaki* (FORTH), David Smith (Duke U.), Martin Weneger (U. Karlsruhe), Ekmel Ozbay (Bilkent U.), Sir John Pendry (Imperial College). Asterisk designates member, but not the leader, of one of the five teams.
For further information, check out the Ames Laboratory Press Release—http://www.ameslab.gov/final/News/2005rel/Descartesaward.htm
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