John Pendry

Sir John Brian Pendry
Born	4 July 1943
Residence	United Kingdom
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Imperial College London
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Known for	Metamaterials 'Superlens' theory Cloaking device

Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS FInstP (born 4 July 1943^[1][2]) is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indexes and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak". He is now a chair in Theoretical solid state physics at Imperial College London where he was head of the department of physics (1998–2001) and principal of the faculty of physical sciences (2001–2002). He is an honorary fellow of Downing College, Cambridge (where he was an undergraduate) and an IEEE fellow.

Selected publications

Below is a list of highly cited articles of which Sir Pendry was author or co-author. PDF copies of the articles are linked to the title.

• Pendry, J. B. (2000). "Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens". Physical Review Letters 85 (18): 3966–9. Bibcode 2000PhRvL..85.3966P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3966. PMID 11041972. http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~sbattle/e4411/term%20paper/neg%20refrac%20lens.pdf. 

• Pendry, J. B.; Schurig, D; Smith, DR (2006). "Controlling Electromagnetic Fields". Science 312 (5781): 1780–2. Bibcode 2006Sci...312.1780P. doi:10.1126/science.1125907. PMID 16728597. http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/dschuri/Site/Publications_files/1780.pdf. 
• Schurig, D.; Mock, J. J.; Justice, B. J.; Cummer, S. A.; Pendry, J. B.; Starr, A. F.; Smith, D. R. (2006). "Metamaterial Electromagnetic Cloak at Microwave Frequencies". Science 314 (5801): 977–80. Bibcode 2006Sci...314..977S. doi:10.1126/science.1133628. PMID 17053110. http://people.ee.duke.edu/~cummer/reprints/058_Schurig06_Science_CloakMeasurements.pdf. 

• Pendry, J.; Holden, A.; Stewart, W.; Youngs, I. (1996). "Extremely Low Frequency Plasmons in Metallic Mesostructures". Physical Review Letters 76 (25): 4773–4776. Bibcode 1996PhRvL..76.4773P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4773. PMID 10061377. http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/photonics/Newphotonics/pdf/lfplslet.pdf. 

• Pendry, J.B.; Holden, A.J.; Robbins, D.J.; Stewart, W.J. (1999). "Magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena". IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 47 (11): 2075. Bibcode 1999ITMTT..47.2075P. doi:10.1109/22.798002. http://people.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith/nim_pubs/pubs_early/Pendry_IEEE_1999.pdf. 

• Martín-Moreno, L.; García-Vidal, F.; Lezec, H.; Pellerin, K.; Thio, T.; Pendry, J.; Ebbesen, T. (2001). "Theory of Extraordinary Optical Transmission through Subwavelength Hole Arrays". Physical Review Letters 86 (6): 1114–7. arXiv:cond-mat/0008204. Bibcode 2001PhRvL..86.1114M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1114. PMID 11178023. http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/photonics/pdf/PRL86_1114.pdf.  also see: Arxiv.org (self published preprint of this article).

Books authored

• Low Energy Electron Diffraction: The Theory and Its Application to Determination of Surface Structure (Techniques of physics) (Academic Press Inc.,U.S., 1974) ISBN 9780125505505
• Surface Crystallographic Information Service: A Handbook of Surface Structures – (Springer, 1987) ISBN 9789027725035

Awards

• 1984 – Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
• 1996 – The Dirac prize and medal for outstanding contributions to theoretical physics.
• 2004 – John Pendry was knighted in the Queen's Birthday honours list (services to science).
• 2006 – The Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London

References

External links

• Google scholar List of Papers by JB Pendry
• Imperial College, Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Theory Group
• Personal Profile of John Pendry at Imperial college
• John Pendry video: The birth and promise of metamaterials (SPIE Newsroom, October 2011)

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