Recent progress in nano-photonics: plasmonic materials and structures

Dr. Marcello Ferrera has recently been appointed Lecturer at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. He is currently involved in a three-year collaboration with the group of Prof. V. Shalaev at The Purdue University; a pioneer in the development of nano-photonics by exploiting plasmonic structures. In his talk, Dr. Ferrera will report about his most recent results dealing with: i) New materials in nano-photonics; ii) Emission enhancement of single photon source via interaction with hyperbolic metamaterials; and iii) Optically induced metasurfaces.