SC302 MetaMaterials

Sunday, May 4, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Vladimir M. Shalaev; Purdue Univ., USA

Level: Beginner (no background or minimal training is necessary to understand course material)

Course Description
Metamaterials are expected to open a gateway to unprecedented electromagnetic properties and functionality unattainable from naturally occurring materials. We review this new emerging field and recent progress in demonstrating metamaterials from the microwave to the optical range. Artificial magnetism and negative-index in the optical range, as well as approaches and challenges for accomplishing optical cloaking will be analyzed. The feasibility of engineering optical space with metamterials by using the transformation optics will be discussed. A family of novel meta-devices that can be enabled by metamaterials will be also considered.

Benefits and Learning Objectives
This course should enable you to:

• Understand the fundamentals of metamaterials and learn about new emerging areas.
• Learn more about optical magnetism.
• Learn more about applications of negative-index metamaterials (NIMs).
• Understand the nature of a negative refractive index.
• Learn approaches for scaling NIMs to the optical range.
• Explore novel applications in nanophotonics.
• Discuss novel optical materials.

Intended Audience
This course is intended for students, industry and National Lab workers, researchers looking for new directions, startup companies.

Instructor Biography
Vladimir M. Shalaev, the Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, specializes in nanophotonics, nanoplasmonics and optical metamaterials. He has several awards for his research in the field of nanophotonics and metamaterials. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the Optical Society of America (OSA). Shalaev is editor/co-editor for a number of journals and book series in the area of nanoscale optics. He has authored and edited 7 books and has published 20 invited book chapters and more than 250 research papers.