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Research Areas

Electromagnetism, material science, photonics, nanotechnology, metamaterials, plasmonics, optics

Education

• PhD, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA

Publications

1. Durach, M. Beyond Green鈥檚 Functions: Inverse Helmholtz and 鈥淥m鈥� 啷�-Potential Methods for Macroscopic Electromagnetism in Isotropy-Broken Media. Photonics 12, 660 (2025)
2. T贸th, E., Fekete, O.A., B谩nhelyi, B. et al. Layered Babinet complementary patterns acting as asymmetric negative index metamaterial. Sci Rep 14, 29568 (2024).
3. Durach, M. Biaxial Gaussian Beams, Hermite鈥揋aussian Beams, and Laguerre鈥揋aussian Vortex Beams in Isotropy-Broken Materials. Photonics 11, 1062 (2024)
4. Durach, M. Theory of Refraction, Ray鈥揥ave Tilt, Hidden Momentum, and Apparent Topological Phases in Isotropy-Broken Materials Based on Electromagnetism of Moving Media. Appl. Sci. 14, 6851 (2024)
5. J. Munga, C. Yang, Md A. Rab, T. V. Shahbazyan, M. Durach, M. A. Noginov, and N. Noginova, “Highly luminescent ultra-thin films with rare earth for plasmonic applications,” Opt. Continuum 2, 2200-2208 (2023)
6. Durach, M. Electromagnetic Scattering by Bianisotropic Spheres. Appl. Sci. 13, 5169 (2023)

Funding

Current Grants

1. NSF proposal 鈥淩UI: Subwavelength Electromagnetism in Multihyperbolic Metamaterials鈥� – $238,140 – pending
2. HU-RIZON 2025 (Hungary) proposal: 鈥淢ETAOPTIQIP — Metamaterials for Optimized Quantum Information Processing鈥� – $66,785 – pending

Previous Grants

1. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant subaward from Norfolk State University 鈥淓ffects of environment on dense arrays of electric and magnetic emitters; Theoretical analysis and support in numerical simulations鈥� (2020-2021) – $11,000
2. NSF-funded Blue Waters Internship Award (2014-2019) – $19,000

Research Group

Postdoc

• David Keene

Former Students

• Reed Hodges
• Thomas Mulkey
• Morgan Laballe
• Maxwell Wallace
• Felix Robert Williamson
• Matthew LePain
• David Keene