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.

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1. H. T. Chen and S. Palit and T. Tyler and C. M. Bingham and J. M. O. Zide and J. F. O'hara and D. R. Smith and A. C. Gossard and R. D. Averitt and W. J. Padilla and N. M. Jokerst and A. J. Taylor, Hybrid metamaterials enable fast electrical modulation of freely propagating terahertz waves, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 93 no. 9 (September, 2008), ISSN 0003-6951  [abs]
2. J. J. Mock and R. T. Hill and A. Degiron and S. Zauscher and A. Chilkoti and D. R. Smith, Distance-dependent plasmon resonant coupling between a gold nanoparticle and gold film, Nano Letters, vol. 8 no. 8 (August, 2008), pp. 2245 -- 2252, ISSN 1530-6984  [abs]
3. D. S. Sebba and J. J. Mock and D. R. Smith and T. H. Labean and A. A. Lazarides, Reconfigurable core-satellite nanoassemblies as molecularly-driven plasmonic switches, Nano Letters, vol. 8 no. 7 (July, 2008), pp. 1803 -- 1808, ISSN 1530-6984  [abs]
4. M. Rahm and D. A. Roberts and J. B. Pendry and D. R. Smith, Transformation-optical design of adaptive beam bends and beam expanders, Optics Express, vol. 16 no. 15 (July, 2008), pp. 11555 -- 11567, ISSN 1094-4087  [abs]
5. T. Driscoll and S. Palit and M. M. Qazilbash and M. Brehm and F. Keilmann and B. G. Chae and S. J. Yun and H. T. Kim and S. Y. Cho and N. M. Jokerst and D. R. Smith and D. N. Basov, Dynamic tuning of an infrared hybrid-metamaterial resonance using vanadium dioxide, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 93 no. 2 (July, 2008), ISSN 0003-6951  [abs]