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This course will introduce you to the field of metamaterials (artificial materials designed to achieve advantageous and unusual electromagnetic and optical properties) and nanophotonics (controlling light at nanoscale).
Short content: Introduction (motivation - what changes if light "sees" particles which are smaller or comparable in size with the wavelength and why this is important); Photonic crystals; Plasmonic nanoparticles; Plasmonic waveguides (including particle chains); Metamaterials (definition and why they are promising), Superlens; Metasurfaces (including extraordinary transmission and perfect absorption); Review of applications (SERS, surface plasmon microscopy, nanostructured solar cells, thermophotovoltaics, metatronics, etc.)
Lecturers: Profs. Sergei Tretyakov and Constantin Simovski
Assistants: Dr. Fu Liu, MSc Xuchen Wang, MSc Francisco Cuesta
Download the lecture program from here.