Plasmonic Metamaterials: Unusual Optics and Applications
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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Abstract
Surface plasmon-polaritons (or plasmons) are collective excitations of the conduction electrons
and the electromagnetic field on the surface of such good metals as gold and silver. Near the
frequency of surface plasmon resonance plasmons may perceive regular dielectrics as negative
index metamaterials. As a result, unusual microscopy, lithography, and waveguiding devices
may be realized. Nonlinear optics of these metamaterials is also extremely interesting. I will de-
scribe recent experiments on plasmon-induced inverse Faraday effect in plasmonic metamateri-
als. The plasmonic control of the spins opens new interesting avenues for all-optical ultrafast
control of the magnetization at a nanometer length scale.
Bio
Igor Smolyaninov is a Principal Electronic Engineer at BAE Systems. He received his Ph.D.
from the Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has
published 6 review articles and more than 80 journal papers in various areas of nanophotonics,
low temperature physics, and optical wireless communication.
Sponsored by
The Birk Nanotechnology Center,
The Bindley Bioscience Center,
Purdue Discovery Park,
The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing,
The Network for Computational Nanotechnology,
VEECO,
NCN Student Leadership Council,
Department of Chemistry,
Department of Physics,
School of Chemical Engineering,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
School of Mechanical Engineering
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