ECE-695s, Fall 2009

Nanophotonics & Metamaterials

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Purdue Schools of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Announcements:

Beginning on Sept 1, all ECE 695S lectures will be held in Birck Nanotechnology Center (BRK) Room 2001

Course Syllabus:

Lecture Notes:

Lecture 1 - Intro. Syllabus discussion. Light interaction with matter. Review of the Maxwell’s equations.
Lecture 2 - Dispersion in Materials
Lecture 3 - Optical Properties of Bulk and Nano
Lecture 4 - Light Interaction with Small Structures
Lecture 5 - Photonic crystal: An Introduction
Lecture 6 - Mathematical Background
Lecture 7 - Super-lens and Super-prism effects
Lecture 8 - Photonic crystal fibers
Lecture 9 - Metal Optics: An Introduction
Lecture 10 - Surface Plasmon Excitation
Lecture 11 - Guiding Light Along Nanoparticle Arrays
Lecture 12 - Plasmonic Nanostructures in Sensing Molecules
Lecture 13 - Super resolution, Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy
Lecture 14 - Extraordinary optical transmission through very small apertures (student presentation)

Homework:

Homework #1
Homework #1 solution
Homework #2
Homework #2 solution

Exams:

Instructor:

Prof. Vladimir Shalaev
Office: BRK 2295
E-mail: shalaev@ecn.purdue.edu
Website: http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~shalaev/