2018

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• Lebanon President awarded Dr. Farid G. Mitri the National Order of the Cedar for meritorious research​       

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2017

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• Editors' Pick - Journal of the Optical Society of America A (http://www.Osapublishing.org/JOSAA/abstract.cfm?uri=JOSAA-34-7-1246)

       

       Editors' Pick serve to highlight articles with excellent scientific quality and are representative of the          work taking place in a specific field

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• TOP DOWNLOADED ARTICLES IN PHYSICAL OPTICS from the Journal of the Optical Society of America A (https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.33.001661)

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2016

 

• FEATURED KALEIDOSCOPE by PHYSICAL REVIEW A (The American Physical Society APS)

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• FEATURED ARTICLE by the Journal of Applied Physics (AIP)

 

      Title "Annular spherically-focused ring transducers for improved

       single-beam acoustical tweezers" 

      J. Appl. Phys. 119, 064901 (2016) 

      http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4940961

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• Most Cited Wave Motion Articles 

      Off-axial acoustic scattering of a high-order Bessel vortex beam by a rigid sphere
      Volume 48, Issue 5, July 2011, Pages 392-400

      http://www.journals.elsevier.com/wave-motion/most-cited-articles

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• United States Patent: 9,383,238 B2 issued (Assignee: Chevron USA INC., San Ramon, CA)

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2015

• Senior Member of the IEEE (Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society - UFFCS)

 

• Invited Talk at the 170th Fall 2015 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Jacksonville, FL) 

      Title "Acoustics of finite Bessel tractor beams" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 138, 1908 (2015)                                       http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4933999

 

• Invited Talk at the 169th Spring 2015 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Pittsburgh, PA)  

      Title "The pull of finite acoustic beams" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 137, 2313 (2015)                                                     http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4920440

 

• Editor's Selection of Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control - January 2015 edition (click on the following links - IEEE membership required for access)

      http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2014.006498  &  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TUFFC.2014.2957

      

• Highly Cited Articles in the IEEE Transactions on UFFC, March, May, July 2015 editions

 

2014

• Viewpoint: A Macroscopic Tractor Beam with Acoustic Waves (by Prof. Karen Volke-Sepúlveda)

      See also "Near-field single tractor-beam acoustical tweezers" in Appl. Phys. Lett. (2013)    

      and "Single Bessel tractor-beam tweezers" in Wave Motion (2014)

 

• Farid appointed Technical Program Committee (TPC) member in Physical Acoustics for the

      IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society

 

• Farid appointed journal Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics,

      and Frequency Control

 

• Editor's Selection of Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control - September 2014 edition

 

• Editor's Selection of Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control - July 2014 edition

 

• Editor's Selection of Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control - January 2014 edition

 

2013

• Editor's Selection of Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control - November 2013 edition

 

• Editor's Selection of Highly Cited Articles in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control - October 2013 edition

 

2012

• United States Patent: 8,286,467 B2 issued (Licensed to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, in April 2014)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011

• Pesquisa: cientista de Los Alamos visita pesquisadores de Acustica Fisica (Universidad Federal de Alagoas)

 

• Force of acoustical waves tapped for metamaterials (Eurekalert)

 

• Invisibility cloaks and more (ScienceDaily)

 

• Tractor beam is possible with lasers, say scientists (BBC News)

 

• Featured article by Physics in Medicine and Biology Editors (Free access from the Institute of Physics IOP)

 

• Fisico ajuda a desenvolver nova tecnica de captacao de imagens medicas (UFAL)

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