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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 1000yesIIT Guwahati (IITG)

The Syllabus

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

Fundamentals of nanophotonics 1
  • Electromagnetic theory of light
  • Electromagnetic properties of material
  • Constitutive relationships and material parameters
  • Electromagnetic waves in dielectric media

Fundamentals of nanophotonics 2
  • Polarization of light
  • Reflection and refraction
  • Fresnel equations
  • Absorption, dispersion, and scattering of electromagnetic waves

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

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

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

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

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

Metamaterials 2: Applications
  • Perfect absorbers
  • Super lens, Hyperbolic metamaterials and application in high-resolution imaging: Hyper lens
  • Tunable photonic metamaterial based devices

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

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

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

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