Metamaterials, Plasmonics, and Nanophotonics Lab

Our group’s research interests span the broad areas of multiphysics computational modeling (electromagnetics, quantum optics, thermal, fluid dynamics), linear and nonlinear theoretical and experimental plasmonics and nanophotonics, tunable and nonreciprocal metamaterials and metadevices, nanotechnology and two dimensional (2D) materials, ultrafast laser physics and thermal emission, antenna design, and extreme effects based on strong light-matter interactions. We have been actively researching topics in metallic (plasmonic) and dielectric nanophotonic devices, such as metasurfaces, nanoantennas, and metamaterials. We have developed new advanced computational electromagnetic methods to model linear, nonlinear, anisotropic, chiral, nonreciprocal, nonlocal, and active PT-symmetric hybrid and nonhybrid nanophotonic devices. We have worked on the concepts of reconfigurable, nonlinear, and tunable plasmonic and dielectric nanocircuits, nanostructures, and nanoantennas. We have demonstrated novel metamaterial and plasmonic designs for efficient energy harvesting, thermal emission, and focusing of radiation. We have theoretically and experimentally designed ultrafast and power efficient integrated dielectric and plasmonic planar structures operating at microwave, terahertz, IR, and optical frequencies. We have explored spontaneous parametric down conversion, quantum entanglement, superradiance, fluorescence, and Forster energy transfer mediated by nanophotonic structures.

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