Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, And Metamaterials

By Prof. Debabrata Sikdar | IIT Guwahati

Learners enrolled: 957 | Exam registration: 109

ABOUT THE COURSE:

The course provides a detailed introduction to the three cornerstones of the future photonic technologies, viz., nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials, covering their fundamentals and latest advancements. The basics and applied aspects of nanophotonics i.e. controlling, guiding, and manipulating electromagnetic radiation at the nanoscale will be discussed. The course will first cover the principles of photonic crystals, metal optics, surface plasmon resonance and their applications. Later on, the course will focus on metamaterials and metasurfaces, covering their fundamentals and various applications such as tunable devices, absorbers, hyper lens, super lens, beam steering, and in cloaking and transformation optics. The course will also introduce new alternative materials for nanophotonics and summarize different techniques for fabrication of these nanophotonic devices.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: B.Tech (Final year), M.Tech, M.Sc, and PhD students & Members of R&D in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Nanotechnology and Material Engineering

PREREQUISITES: Basic electromagnetic theory in undergraduate curriculum.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Intel, IBM, Lumerical, Thorlabs, Photon Design, Comsol. Tejas Networks, DRDO, ISRO, DAE labs, and any Opto-electronics based industries.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Physics Photonics
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	24 Jul 2023
End Date :	13 Oct 2023
Enrollment Ends :	07 Aug 2023
Exam Registration Ends :	18 Aug 2023
Exam Date :	29 Oct 2023 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1 : Introduction

Motivation, brief introduction to nanophotonics, plasmonics and metamaterials; Overview of current status of research in academia and industry in the fields of nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials

Week 2 : Fundamentals of nanophotonics 1:

Electromagnetic theory of light; Electromagnetic properties of material; Constitutive relationships and material parameters; Electromagnetic waves in dielectric media

Week 3 : Fundamentals of nanophotonics 2:

Polarization of light; Reflection and refraction; Fresnel equations; Absorption, dispersion, and scattering of electromagnetic waves

Week 4 : Electromagnetic waves in periodic structures 1

Matrix theory of dielectric layered media; Fabry–Perot Etalon; Bragg Grating; 1D Photonic crystals — Bloch modes, Dispersion relation and photonic band structure

Week 5 : Electromagnetic waves in periodic structures 2

Real and reciprocal lattices; 2D and 3D Photonic crystals; Bandgap engineering; Devices based on photonic crystals; Emerging Applications of Photonic Crystals

Week 6 : Metal Optics 1:

Optical properties of metals; Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPP) on planar interfaces; SPP modes for shape resonances, gratings, and light scattering from rough surfaces; Applications of SPPs: Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), Sensing, Subwavelength properties in light-guiding, spasers, and plasmonic circuitry, plasmonic subwavelength enhanced transmission of light

Week 7 : Metal Optics 2:

Plasmonic nanoparticles; Localized plasmon resonances; Chain of plasmonic nanoparticles; Applications of localized plasmon resonances: SERS, Sensing, optical nanoantennas and plasmonic waveguides, biomedical applications, tunable plasmonic devices

Week 8 : Metamaterials 1: Fundamentals

Metamaterials concept; Effective medium theories: Maxwell–Garnett theory, Bruggeman theory, Anisotropic mixtures: multilayers and wire media; Negative-permittivity and negative-permeability metamaterials; Double-Negative

Materials;

Week 9 : Metamaterials 2: Applications

Perfect absorbers; Super lens, Hyperbolic metamaterials and application in high-resolution imaging: Hyper lens; Tunable photonic metamaterial based devices

Week 10 : Metasurfaces:

Introduction to Metasurfaces; Frequency selective surfaces; Guided mode resonances (GMR); Examples of metasurfaces and GMR based devices; Perfect control over transmission and reflection using metasurfaces

Week 11 : Transformation Optics:

Introduction to Transformation Optics; Transformation principle; Invisibility Cloaks; Carpet cloaking; Transformation optics and metamaterials, Introduction to alternative materials

Week 12 : Realization of Nanophotonic Devices:

Nanofabrication: Thin films —Physical methods: Evaporation, Sputtering, Pulsed laser deposition; Chemical methods: chemical vapor deposition (CVD), Atomic layer deposition; Epitaxy: Metal organic CVD, Molecular beam epitaxy; Lithography —photolithography, Non-optical lithography; Pattern transfer; Nanophotonic characterization: brief overview of near-field microscopy and other related methods

Books and references

1. Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications, S. Maier, Springer (2007)

2. Fundamentals of Photonics, 3rd Edition. by Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Malvin Carl Teich.(2019)

3. Fundamentals and Applications of Nanophotonics. by Joseph W. Haus (2016)

4. Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications, W. Cai and V. Shalaev Springer (2010)

Instructor bio

Prof. Debabrata Sikdar

IIT Guwahati

Prof. Debabrata Sikdar received the B.E. degree (Hons.) in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering and the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in physics in 2008, the M.E. degree in Communication Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Australia, in 2015. He worked with General Electric from 2008 to 2010. He joined Imperial College London, as a Research Associate in 2015. Since 2017, he is an Assistant Professor with the Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati. His research interests include nanophotonic devices and metamaterials. He has pioneered many novel techniques in theory, modeling and simulation of light interaction with guided and scattering media at the nanoscale, proposed new tuneable metadevices, and published over 60 research articles, two patents and one book chapter. He won many prestigious scholarships and awards such as Victoria India Doctoral Scholarship, Douglas Lampard Electrical Engineering Research Prize & Medal at Monash University, Marie Curie Individual Fellowship by European Commission.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: 29 October 2023 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

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CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Guwahati .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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- NPTEL team