Professor SirJohn Pendry, FRS
Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
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- Chair in Theoretical Solid State PhysicsDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 7606 (Work)
- 808, Blackett Laboratory, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
John Pendry is a condensed matter theorist and has worked at Imperial since 1981. He is generally regarded as the founder of the field of metamaterials, completely novel materials with properties not found in nature that owe their properties to internal structure rather than chemical composition. These materials enable realisation of remarkable properties such as negative refractive index, lenses that break the diffraction limit, and a prototype cloaking device. His most recent work adds the dimension of time to their structure: META4D.
DEGREES
- PhD, Solid State TheoryUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
FACULTY
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
POSITION NAME
- Chair in Theoretical Solid State Physics
MEDIA GUIDE
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