Novel Designs in Nanophotonics
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Novel Designs in Nanophotonics
Tue, 15/03/2016 - 10:15 to 11:15
Location:
Speaker:
Vladimir M. Shalaev
Affiliation:
Purdue University
Synopsis:
We outline the recent progress in developing new plasmonic materials and layouts that will form the basis for future low-loss, CMOS-compatible devices, enabling full-scale widespread of metamaterials and nanophotonic technologies. The use of plasmonic effects over a broad range of electromagnetic spectrum has been a challenge over the first few decades of research due to limited number of available materials. Transition metal nitrides attract attention as plasmonic materials in the visible and infrared spectral regions with optical properties resembling gold. As refractory materials, nitrides can withstand high operative temperatures as well as aggressive chemical environments. Adjustable dielectric permittivity of plasmonic nitrides allow fine tuning of optical properties for selected applications. In this talk, novel designs and concepts based on refractory plasmonic materials for infrared applications will be presented. Novel metasurface designs as a basis for a chip-compatible platform for nanophotonics and quantum photonics applications will be also discussed.
Biography:
Prof. Vladimir M. Shalaev, Scientific Director for Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, specializes in nanophotonics, plasmonics, and optical metamaterials. Vlad Shalaev (h-index 80, Google Scholar) received several awards for his research in the field of nanophotonics and metamaterials, including the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America for his pioneering contributions to the field of optical metamaterials, the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Rolf Landauer medal of the ETOPIM (Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media) International Association, the UNESCO Medal for the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies and IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, He is a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, SPIE, MRS and OSA. Prof. Shalaev authored three books, twenty-eight invited book chapters and over 400 research publications. The OPTICS category in the ISI Web of Science contains 89 journals, which in total publish over 50,000 papers each year. Out of about 565,000 papers published in these journals during the last 10 years, three papers from the Shalaev group are among the top twenty most cited publications.