Padilla and co-workers give an excellent overview on metamaterial absorbers and discuss a selection of examples and related applications in this field.

Padilla and co-workers give an excellent overview on metamaterial absorbers and discuss a selection of examples and related applications in this field.
Multi-year research effort to improve supply, efficient use, and recycling of critical materials to reduce US dependence on foreign sources.
Latest physica status solidi article highlights (May 2012)
Gossuin, Sandre, et al. describe the design of magnetic nanoparticles with optimised relaxivity for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Magnetic recording, solid state lighting, graphene – the most downloaded pss articles from April.
Graphene and carbon nanotubes could improve the electronics used in computers and mobile phones, reveals new research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
One of the exciting potential applications of electromagnetically induced transparency and slow and stored light is for practical realization of quantum memory, and, ultimately, quantum computing. Recent advances using ensembles of warm atoms in vapor cells have been made.
Many new entries in the Top 40 most-read papers in Advanced Materials last week, including work on graphene, organic and oxide semiconductors, plasmonics, and nanostructures.
Monica Craciun’s communication on graphene-based conductors tops the charts in the first Advanced Materials Top 40.
Bruker Introduces High Definition and the revolutionary NMR Thermometer™ to NMR with Sensitive, Accurate, High Definition NMR Spectrometer