Sheldon Schultz
email: sschultz@ucsd.edu
phone: (858) 534 4078
fax: (858) 534 6301
Research Professor of Physics
M.E. Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey), 1954
Ph.D. Columbia University (New York), 1959
Research Interests:
The Schultz research group at UCSD is actively involved in the development and implementation
of their newly discovered “Left Handed Meta Materials” (see Publication 10 and Patent 2) with
entirely new electro-magnetic properties, including the experimental demonstration of a negative
index of refraction material (see Publication 7). Other interests include: Photonic Band Gap (PBG)
structures (with controlled defects as cavities for high gradient Linear Accelerators), Plasmon resonant
nano-particles (PRPs) as optical transducers for biochemical and clinical medical applications
(see Patent 1); PRP based Kerr Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy; sub-micron magnetic particles;
Advanced Instrumentation; and microwave spectroscopy (CESR, TESR, dilute-local moments, spin glasses,
and superconductors.
Publications Illustrating Current Research Interests:
Negative Index Materials:
Vier D.C., Fredkin D.R., Simic A., Schultz S., Tanielian M., "Experimental confirmation of negative phase
change in negative index material planar samples." Applied Physics Letters, 86, 241908 (2005).
Smith, D.R., Schurig D., Rosenbluth M., Schultz S., Ramakrishna S.A., and Pendry J.B., "Limitations on
sub-diffraction imaging with a negative refractive index slab", Appl. Phys. Lett., 82 (10), 1506 (2003).
Wu, D., Fang N., Sun C., Zhang X., Padilla W.J., Basov D.N., Smith D.R., and Schultz S.,
"Terahertz plasmonic high pass filter", App. Phys. Lett., 83, 201 (2003).
Smith D.R., Schultz S., Markos P., Soukoulis C.M. "Determination of effective permittivity and
permeability of metamaterials from reflection and transmission coefficients". Phys. Rev. B, 65, 195104, (2002).
Ramakrishna, S.A., Pendry J.B., Schurig D., Smith D.R., and Schultz S., "The asymmetric lossy near-perfect
lens", J. Mod. Opt., 49, 1747 (2002).
Weiland T., Schulmann R., Greegor R., Parazzoli C., Vetter A., Smith D.R., Vier D.C., and Schultz S.,
"Calculation of S-parameters for a left-handed metamaterial and comparison with experimental data",
J. Appl. Phys., 90, 5419 (2001).
Shelby, R.A., Smith, D.R., Schultz, S., "Experimental verification of a negative index of refraction",
Science, 292, 77 (2001).
Shelby, R.A., Smith, D.R., Nemat-Nasser, S.C., Schultz, S., "Microwave transmission through a two-dimensional,
isotropic, left-handed metamaterial", Appl. Phys. Lett., 78, 489 (2001).
Smith, D. R., Vier, D. C., Kroll, N., Schultz, S., "Direct calculation of permeability and permittivity for
a left-handed metamaterial", Appl. Phys. Lett., 77, 2246 (2000).
Smith, D. R., Padilla, W.J., Vier, D. C., Nemat-Nasser, S. C., Schultz, S., "A composite medium with
simultaneously negative permeability and permittivity", Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 4184 (2000).
Smith, D.R., Padilla, W.J., Vier, D.C., Shelby, R.A., Nemat-Nasser, S.N., Kroll, N., Schultz, S., "Left-Handed
Metamaterials", NATO-ASI Series, Proceedings of the Photonic Crystals and Light Localization Conference, Heraklion, Greece (2000).
Smith, D. R., Vier, D. C., Padilla, W., Nemat-Nasser, S. N., Schultz, S., "Loop-wire medium for investigating
plasmons at microwave frequencies", Appl. Phys. Lett., 75, 1425 (1999).
Plasmonic nanoparticles:
Mock, J.J., Smith D.R., and Schultz S., "Local refractive index dependence of plasmon resonance spectra
from individual nanoparticles", NanoLetters, 3, 485, (2003).
Su K.-H., Wei Q.-H., Zhang X., Mock J.J., Smith D.R., and Schultz S., "Interparticle coupling effects
on plasmon resnances of nano gold particles", NanoLetters, 3, 1087 (2003).
Oldenburg, S.J., Mock J.J., Glass J., Asenjo A., Genick C., Smith D.R., Schultz D.A., and Schultz S.,
"Metal Nanoparticles for Biodection", Proc. SPIE, 36, 4810, (2003).
Mock, J., Barbic, M., Smith D.R., Schultz D.A., and Schultz S., "Shape Effects in Plasmon Resonance
of Individual Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles", J. of Chemical Physics, 116, 6755 (2002).
Schultz, S., Smith, D.R., Mock, J.J., and Schultz, D.A., "Single-target molecule detection with nonbleaching
multicolor optical immunolabels", Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci., 97(3), 996-1001 (2000).
Silva, T. J., Schultz, S., and Weller, D., "Scanning near-field optical microscope for the imaging of magnetic
domains in optically opaque materials", Appl. Phys. Letts., 65, 658 (1994).
Photonic Band Gap:
Kroll, N., Schultz, S., Smith, D.R., Vier, D.C., "Photonic band gap accelerator cavity design at 90 GHz",
Proceedings of the 1999 Particle Accelerator Conference, New York (1999).
Martin, O. J. F., Girard, C., Smith, D. R., Schultz, S., "Generalized field propagator for arbitrary
finite size photonic band gap structures", Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, 315 (1999).
Smith, D. R., Kroll, N., Schultz, S., "Design considerations for a 2-D photonic band gap cavity,
in Photonic Band Gap Materials", Edited by C. M. Soukoulis, NATO ASI Series, 315, NY (1996).
Schultz, S., Smith, D. R., Kroll, N., "Photonic band gap accelerators", Proceedings of the 1993 Particle
Accelerator Conference, Washington D. C., USA, 17-20 May (1993).
McCall S.L., Platzman PM, Dalichaouch R, Smith D, Schultz S. "Microwave propagation in two-dimensional
dielectric lattices". Physical Review Letters, 67, 2017 (1991).
Patents:
1 Plasmon resonant particles, methods and apparatus, Patent Number: 6,180,415
2 Left handed composite media, Patent Number: 6,791,432
Academic Honors:
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1964-65; 1965-66
In 2003 the Center for Magnetic Recording Research endowed a graduate student annual prize
named "In Honor of Former CMRR Director Sheldon Schultz," in appreciation for his service as Director.
Research work selected in Science magazine, No. 8 in "Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2003."
©University of California, San Diego - Department of Physics 1998
Creation / Modification Date: November 11, 2005
