This monograph is a detailed introduction to the nascent and ever-evolving fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics, with key techniques and applications needed for a comprehensive understanding of these fields all detailed. These include the 'standard' and high-accuracy 'nonstandard' FDTD techniques, finite-difference frequency-domain mode solvers, the transfer matrix method, analytic calculations for dielectric and plasmonic waveguides, dispersion, Maxwell-Bloch and density functional theory, as well as design methods for constructing metamaterials and nanolasers, and quantum plasmonics. The book is intended for final-year undergraduates, as well as postgraduates or active researchers who wish to understand and enter these fields in a 'user-friendly' manner, and who have a basic understanding of and familiarity with electromagnetic theory.
Sample Chapter(s)
Introduction
Chapter 1: Vectorial Field Theory and Modelling of 3D Dielectric Waveguides
Contents:
- Vectorial Field Theory and Modelling of 3D Dielectric Waveguides
- Conventional and Nonstandard Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method
- Light Propagation in Negative-Refractive-Index Metamaterials and Waveguides
- Plasmonic and Metamaterial Waveguides
- Design Methods for Constructing Metamaterials
- "Trapped Rainbow": Stopping of Light in Metamaterials
- Passive Stopped-Light Waveguides
- Impact of Surface Roughness on Stopped-Light
- Maxwell–Bloch Theory and Gain
- Summary of Surface Plasmons and Active Plasmonics
- Quantum Plasmonics
- Nanolasers
Readership: Graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and active researchers in: nanoscale physics, nanophotonics, optics, condensed matter physics.
Kosmas L Tsakmakidis is a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He had obtained his PhD in Applied Physics and Engineering from the University of Surrey, and his postdoctoral research work brought him to Imperial College London, UC Berkeley, University of Ottawa and EPFL before his current appointment. His specialization is in condensed matter photonics, nanophotonics, metamaterials, 'slow' and 'fast' light, computational physics, invisibility cloaking, and light-based chiral sensing schemes. In these topics, he made a number of seminal contributions and new concepts, as evidenced in his publications in top-tier journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Science. Tsakmakidis has also received awards from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Physics, the UK Parliament, the Academy of Athens and the University of Surrey.
Born in Sparta, Greece, Konstantinos G Baskourelos obtained his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Mechanical Engineering, 2004), and then his MSc in Computational Physics and his PhD in Computational Electromagnetics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Physics, 2006 and 2012). He also obtained an MSc in Computational Mechanics and another MSc in Physics and Technological Applications, both from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (School of Chemical Engineering, 2015, and School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 2020). He specializes in numerical methods in Electromagnetics and Mechanics, specifically the Method of Moments, the Finite Element Method and the Boundary Element Method. His interests include Computational Physics, Plasmonics, Numerical Analysis, scientific programming and Mathematical Physics.
Marek S Wartak received a MEng in Electronics (Electrical Engineering) with a concentration on Solid State Technology and PhD in Theoretical Physics with emphasis on Quantum Liquids, both from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. He has over 30 years of experience in semiconductor physics, photonics and optoelectronics, analytical methods, modeling and computer-aided design tools. During his career he has worked at Nortel Networks, National Research Council, Canada, California and Europe. Since 1990 he has been employed by Wilfrid Laurier University, presently as Full Professor at the Department of Physics and Computer Science. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE.
