EE857 Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Announcements

• Lecture notes 7 posted.
• Final presentation schedule posted.
• Midterm results posted.
• Lecture notes 6 posted.
• Lecture notes 5 posted.
• Lecture notes 4 posted.
• Lecture notes 3 posted.
• Lecture notes 2 posted.
• No class on March 6th and 8th due to APS March Meeting.
• Lecture notes 1 posted.

Vital Information

• Location: 1218 E3-2
• Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30-11:45am
• Instructor: Min Seok Jang, 2221 E3-2, jang.minseok [at] kaist.ac.kr
• Teaching Assistant: Songju Lee, 2222 E3-2, songjulee [at] kaist.ac.kr
• Prerequisite: Electromagnetism

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Textbooks

• Required: Plasmonics: fundamentals and applications by Stefan A. Maier [ download link ]
• Optional: Surface plasmon nanophotonics ed. by Brongersma and Kik
  Metamaterials: physics and engineering explorations ed. by Engheta and Ziolkowski

Evaluation

• Overall: Attendance (20%) + Midterm (40%) + Final presentation (40%)
• Attendence (20%): min {1, ((Nt − Na)/(Nt − 3))^4 },
  where Na and Nt are the number of missed lectures and the total number of lectures, respectively.
  
• Midterm (40%):
  - Time: Wednesday April 18th 9:00-11:45am
  - Location: 1218 E3-2
  - Result [ link ]
• Final presentation (40%):
  - Presentation schedule [ link ]
  - Evaluation checklist [ link ]
  - Each student reviews one specific area of plasmonics and gives an oral presentation.
  - 18 min. presentation + 7 min. Q&A
  - The topic categories are listed below, but you are welcome to propose one.
  - For each presentation, students are expected to ask at least one question.
  - Each student evaluates the other students’ presentation.
  - Final Score = Students' evauluation (50%) + Instructor's evaulation (50%)
  - Topic categories:
    ▪ Plasmonic integrated circuits
    ▪ Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
    ▪ Sensing applications
    ▪ Energy and biomedical applications
    ▪ Metamaterials and metasurfaces
    ▪ Superlenses and hyperlenses
    ▪ Transformation optics and invisible cloak
    ▪ Slow light and trapped rainbows
    ▪ Active plasmonic applications
    ▪ New plasmonic materials
    ▪ Plasmonic Nanofabrication
    ▪ Nonlinear plasmonics
    ▪ Quantum plasmonics

Lecture Notes

1. Introduction [ download ]
2. Optical properties of metals [ download ]
3. Surface plasmons at metal-dielectric interface [ download ]
4. Excitation of surface plasmons [ download ]
5. Plasmonic waveguides [ download ]
6. Localized surface plasmons [ download ]
7. Metamaterials [ download ]
8. Tunable metasurface lens by Sangin Bae [ link ]
9. Various metamaterial absorbers by Chanhyeong Lee [ link ]
10. Surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy (SERS) for bioanalysis by Geon Kook [ link ]
11. Slow light and trapped rainbows by Juho Park [ link ]
12. Surface plasmon-driven hot carrier flow with metal-semiconductor nanodiodes by Hyunhwa Lee [ link ]
13. Metasurface antenna by Muhammad Tayyabazim [ link ]
14. Plasmonic bio-molecular sensing by Junhyung Kim [ link ]
15. Plasmonics nanofabrication by Eui Joong Shin [ link ]
16. Molecular sensor using graphene plasmon by Heonhak Ha [ link ]
17. Plasmonic modulators by Joon-sub Shim [ link ]
18. Perfect light absorber based on subwavelength-scale Mie Scattering by Yeonghoon Jin [ link ]
19. Electrically controlled plasmonic on-off switches by Minchul Kim [ link ]
20. Optical Nanoantenna by Jongwan Kim [ link ]
21. Plasmonic integrated circuit by Taewon Park [ link ]
22. Plasmonic organic modulators for optical communications by Trung Dung Ha [ link ]
23. Plasmonic photodetector by Nam-Hyun Kwon [ link ]
24. Plasmonic applications of fluorescence enhancement based on a blue LED by Kyeongjin Han [ link ]
25. Metasurface hologram by Sangjun Han [ link ]
26. Application of plasmonics in photovoltaic device by Il Woong Tcho [ link ]
27. Transformation optics and invisible cloak by Jun Sik Lee [ link ]