The course will explore nanoscale processes and devices, along with their uses for controlling light at the nanoscale.
The students will have the chance to address the following topics:
- Electrodynamics for nanophotonics: Maxwell equations; constitutive relations; plane waves; polarization; Poynting theorem; Fresnel coefficients; optical waveguides; transfer matrix method;
- Photonic crystals: propagation in periodic media; photonic bandgap; photonic crystal devices; defect photonic crystals and resonant grating;
- Plasmonics: Drude's model and optical properties of metals; surface plasmons; plasmonic nanoparticles; nanoantennas, plasmonic sensors;
- Metamaterials and metasurfaces: left-hand and right-hand materials, split ring resonator and thin wires, cloaking, meta-lenses, generalized sheet transition conditions; anomalous reflection and refraction; equivalent circuit model for metasurfaces, Sievenpiper metasurfaces.
The students will have the chance to address the following topics:
- Electrodynamics for nanophotonics: Maxwell equations; constitutive relations; plane waves; polarization; Poynting theorem; Fresnel coefficients; optical waveguides; transfer matrix method;
- Photonic crystals: propagation in periodic media; photonic bandgap; photonic crystal devices; defect photonic crystals and resonant grating;
- Plasmonics: Drude's model and optical properties of metals; surface plasmons; plasmonic nanoparticles; nanoantennas, plasmonic sensors;
- Metamaterials and metasurfaces: left-hand and right-hand materials, split ring resonator and thin wires, cloaking, meta-lenses, generalized sheet transition conditions; anomalous reflection and refraction; equivalent circuit model for metasurfaces, Sievenpiper metasurfaces.
- Docente: Luca Schenato