David R. Smith, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and William Bevan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Smith earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at San Diego, and then worked as a postdoc researcher on plasmon resonant particles as optical labels for biological and biochemical assays. Smith's research interests include photonic crystals, metamaterials and negative index media, plasmon nanophotonics, and self-monitoring composites. Smith's research, featured in the June 2004 issue of Physics Today, demonstrated that materials engineered to have negative permittivity and permeability demonstrate exotic behavior such as negative refractive index to subwavelength focusing.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	130 Hudson Hall
Office Phone:	(919) 660-5376
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• ECE 270DL.002, FIELDS AND WAVES Synopsis

  Teer 106, WF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• ECE 270DL.02D, FIELDS AND WAVES Synopsis

  Teer 106, M 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• ECE 270L9.01L, FIELDS AND WAVES (LAB) Synopsis

  Hudson 02G, M 03:05 PM-06:05 PM

• ECE 270L9.02L, FIELDS AND WAVES (LAB) Synopsis

  Hudson 02G, Tu 03:05 PM-06:05 PM

• ECE 270L9.03L, FIELDS AND WAVES (LAB) Synopsis

  Hudson 02G, W 03:05 PM-06:05 PM

• ECE 270L9.04L, FIELDS AND WAVES (LAB) Synopsis

  Hudson 02G, Th 04:40 PM-07:40 PM

• ECE 270L9.05L, FIELDS AND WAVES (LAB) Synopsis

  Hudson 02G, F 03:05 PM-06:05 PM

• ECE 495.02, SPECIAL TOPICS Synopsis

  Hudson 222, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, San Diego	1994
B.S.	University of California, San Diego	1988

Specialties:

Photonics
Metamaterials
Electromagnetics
Plasmonics

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Suthakar, U; Magnoni, L; Smith, DR; Khan, A, Optimised Lambda Architecture for Monitoring Scientific Infrastructure, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 32 no. 6 (June, 2021), pp. 1395-1408, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [doi]  [abs]
2. Fern, GR; Hobson, PR; Metcalfe, A; Smith, DR, Performance of four CVD diamond radiation sensors at high temperature, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 958 (April, 2020) [doi]  [abs]
3. Ruiz, JR; Guttenfelder, W; White, AE; Howard, NT; Candy, J; Ren, Y; Smith, DR; Loureiro, NF; Holland, C; Domier, CW, Validation of gyrokinetic simulations of a National Spherical Torus eXperiment H-mode plasma and comparisons with a high-k scattering synthetic diagnostic, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, vol. 61 no. 11 (October, 2019) [doi]  [abs]
4. Hobson, PR; Smith, DR, A portable test-bench for real-time radiation damage measurements in scintillating and wavelength-shifting fibres, 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2019 (October, 2019), ISBN 9781728141640 [doi]  [abs]
5. Ren, Y; Smith, DR; Zweben, SJ; Bell, R; Guttenfelder, W; Kaye, SM; Leblanc, BP; Mazzucato, E; Lee, KC; Domier, CW; Sun, PJ; Yuh, H, Experimental observation of electron-scale turbulence evolution across the L-H transition in the National Spherical Torus Experiment, Nuclear Fusion, vol. 59 no. 9 (August, 2019) [doi]  [abs]