COURSE

AMAT5230

Introduction to Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

Function Hub / Advanced Materials · 3 Credits

This course will provide practial knowledge on metamaterials and metasurfaces to graduate students. We will start from the physics of acoustic and electromagnetic waves, and then we will discuss conventional materials. From the discussion, we will understand the limits of conventional materials due to the weak wave-matter interactions. Then, we will discuss how we can customize the wave-matter interactions and bypass natural limits through various metamaterials and metasurfaces. In particular, students will learn how to design interesting metamaterial and metasurface devices, such as "invisable" cloaks, negative-refraction metalens, and absorbing “black holes”, especially with the finite element method.