The Fall 2023 MatSE 590 for graduate students consists of an exciting and jam-packed schedule. MATSE 590 is a colloquium (1-3 credits) consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
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October 26, 2023 - "4D Metamaterials"
Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
In light-matter interaction the “space” and the “time” exhibit certain symmetry and duality. While these variables in electromagnetics are mathematically analogous in many aspects, their roles in wave propagation in material media naturally have certain differences. Exploring such space-time analogy in electromagnetic metamaterials provide exciting possibilities and new venues for controlling functionalities in light-matter interaction. Four-dimensional (4D) metamaterials are wave-based, material-based platforms in which some of the material parameters can vary with time (i.e., temporal inhomogeneities) in addition to (or instead of) varying in space (i.e., spatial inhomogeneities). Such 4D manipulation of waves in these structures lead to exciting wave phenomena. We have been investigating theoretically several scenarios for waves in such 4D metamaterials and have obtained various novel features that can provide potential applications in wave-based devices and components. In this presentation, I will present some of our most recent results on these topics.
Biographical Information
Nader Engheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with affiliations in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Bioengineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. He received his BS degree from the University of Tehran, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech. His current research activities span a broad range of areas including metamaterials, optics, electrodynamics, microwaves, photonics, nano-optics, graphene photonics, imaging and sensing inspired by eyes of animal species, microwave and optical antennas, and physics and engineering of fields and waves.
He has received several awards for his research including the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023), Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award (2023), the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (UK), the 2020 Max Born Award from the OPTICA (formerly Optical Society), the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the 2018 IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology, the 2022 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture at MIT, the 2015 SPIE Gold Medal, the 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the 2017 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the Canadian Academy of Engineering as an International Fellow, the Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the IEEE Electromagnetics Award, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Award from DoD, the Wheatstone Lecture in King’s College London, 2006 Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
He is a Fellow of nine international scientific and technical organizations, i.e., IEEE, OPTICA, APS, MRS, SPIE, URSI, AAAS, IOP and NAI. He has received the honorary doctoral degrees from the Aalto University in Finland in 2016, the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2016, and Ukraine’s National Technical University Kharkov Polytechnic Institute in 2017.