This Programme Grant is funded by UK EPSRC for five years, from July 1, 2011. It brings together a new grouping of leading UK experimentalists and theorists from physics, materials science and electronic engineering to work together on the exciting opportunities and challenges emerging in the area of spatial transformations (STs) and electromagnetism (EM). Recent UK-led breakthroughs in the theory of STs, such as the possibilities concerning cloaking and invisibility, have caught both the scientific and popular imagination, and have stimulated a huge growth in related research around the world. The potential of the underlying ST approaches, however, have much wider applicability than cloaking alone, in arguably more important applications that span communications, energy transfer, sensors and security. However, theory and concepts are outstripping practical demonstration and testing, leading to a mismatch in what may be theorised and computed and what can be realised for impact in society and commerce. We contend that the timing is now ideal for UK theorists, modellers, manufacturers and engineers to work together to maintain the UK strength in this field, with a clear focus on the reduction to practice and demonstration of potentially radical new concepts and devices.

Contact Details

Professor Yang Hao

Title: Professor in Antennas and Electromagnetics
Tel: Internal: [13] 5341
National: 020 7882 5341
International: +44 20 7882 5341
Fax: National: 020 7882 7997
International: +44 20 7882 7997
Email: yang.hao@eecs.qmul.ac.uk

Research Group: Antennas Research Group, Queen Mary University of London

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