Sir John Pendry (2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology), a theoretical physicist who contributed the theoretical construction of metamaterials to the field of materials science, delivers a lecture as part of the Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025.
Sir John theoretically demonstrated that materials with electromagnetic properties not found in nature, such as negative-refractive-index materials (metamaterials) can be realised by designing microstructures smaller than the wavelength of the target electromagnetic waves, thereby laying the groundwork for creating innovative materials such as ‘superlenses’ with subwavelength resolution and ‘invisibility cloaks’.
Sir John’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A.