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Negative Refraction in Metamaterials

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This lecture covers the concept of negative refraction in metamaterials, starting with the electromagnetic properties and refractive index of different materials, including crystals, dielectrics, and semiconductors. The instructor discusses the reversal of Snell's law in negative refraction, presents experimental verification of a negative index of refraction, and explains the engineering of magnetic permeability using split-ring resonators. The transition from individual structures to metamaterials is explored, highlighting the importance of isotropy. Various attempts to produce isotropic structures are discussed, along with the engineering of negative permittivity in plasma materials through microwire arrays and copper wires. The lecture concludes with refractive index measurements using different materials like Teflon and metamaterials with negative refractive indices.

Instructor

Olivier Martin

Olivier J.F. Martin received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. In 1989, he joined IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he investigated thermal and optical properties of semiconductor laser diodes. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a research staff member at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). In 1997 he received a Lecturer fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). During the period 1996-1999, he spent a year and a half in the U.S.A., as invited scientist at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). In 2001 he received a Professorship grant from the SNSF and became Professor of Nano-Optics at the ETHZ. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Nanophotonics and Optical Signal Processing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), where he is currently head of the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory and Director of the Microengineering Section.

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Chemical engineering

Materials science: Metamaterials

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