The OSA & SPIE Student Chapter and CaSTL present:
Nader Engheta
University of Pennsylvania
“Low-Index Photonics”
Abstract: Recent development in nanotechnology, nanoscience and materials science and engineering has provided opportunities to construct structures with unprecedented attributes and characteristics in manipulating waves and fields. We are exploring light-matter interaction in platforms with extreme scenarios, such as near-zero relative permittivity and near-zero relative permeability, and with extreme features such as very high phase velocity, very low energy velocity, nonreciprocal vortices at the nanoscale, giant anisotropy and nonlinearity, “near-zero” photonics, nanoscale computation with optical nanocircuits, and more. Such “extreme metamaterials” provide us with exciting features and functionalities for wave-based paradigms such as low-index optics, acoustics and thermodynamics. I will discuss some of our ongoing work in these areas, will present some of the opportunities and challenges, and will forecast some future directions and possibilities.
Interested in a career in Academia?
Attend the informal Q & A with Dr. Nader Engheta about his career path!
Who: Graduate Students & Postdocs
When: Friday, February 3rd at 4:15 pm
Where: 1201 Natural Sciences 2
RSVP at http://www.castl.uci.edu/node/558
Biography: Dr. Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania with affiliation in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science and Engineering. His current research span a broad range of areas including nanophotonics, metamaterials, optical nanoengineering, microwave and optical antennas, and physics and engineering of fields and waves. He has received several awards for his research including the 2015 Gold Medal from SPIE, 2015 Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors, the 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science, the 2013 Inaugural SINA Award in Engineering, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is also a Fellow of six international scientific and technical societies.
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