
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Appointments and Affiliations
- Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Information
- Email Address: willie.padilla@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. University of California - San Diego, 2004
Research Interests
Theoretical and experimental investigation of electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, and their application to imaging and sensing at microwave, terahertz, and infrared frequencies
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Fellow. Optical Society of America. 2013
- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. President of the United States of America. 2009
Courses Taught
- BME 552: Advanced Optics
- ECE 270DL: Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation
- ECE 270L9: Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation (Lab)
- ECE 370D: Intermediate Electromagnetic Theory
- ECE 541: Advanced Optics
- ECE 571: Electromagnetic Theory
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 891: Internship
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- PHYSICS 621: Advanced Optics
In the News
- Global List of Highly Cited Puts Duke in Top Ten (Nov 19, 2019)
- Machine Learning Finds New Metamaterial Designs for Energy Harvesting (Sep 25, …
- Dielectric Metamaterial is Dynamically Tuned by Light (May 1, 2018 | Pratt Scho…
- Absorbing Electromagnetic Energy While Avoiding the Heat (Jan 27, 2017 | Pratt …
- Willie Padilla: Exploring Technology’s “Terahertz Gap” (Aug 12, 2014)