School information

An EUPROMETA Doctoral School will be held right after the Conference (13-14 September 2024) in the same venue. The topic of the school will be

Asymmetric effects in reciprocal and nonreciprocal metamaterials

The objective of the school is to delve into asymmetric effects, particularly asymmetric transmission (AT), in both non-reciprocal and reciprocal metamaterials and metasurfaces. AT plays a crucial role in designing isolators and circulators in optics and photonics, and it also finds utility in other areas such as photovoltaic systems, lasers, cloaking, and electromagnetic shielding. AT metamaterials and meta-surfaces, being efficient, ultra-compact and integrable, can provide an appealing alternative to the conventional approaches in all such applications. The objective of the school is both to teach the basic principles and approaches related to asymmetric transmission and also to highlight the recent developments and achievements in the field of metamaterials-based asymmetric transmission devices.  To achieve this objective, the curriculum aspires to include lectures on various aspects, such as non-reciprocity principles, non-reciprocity based on magnetic field bias, magneto-plasmonic metasurfaces, magneto-optic effects in dielectric metasurfaces, and the utilization of biased 2D materials like graphene and transitional metal dichalcogenides. Additionally, topics such as breaking reciprocity in nonlinear asymmetric structures, using spatiotemporal modulation in waveguides and metasurfaces, and the emergence of unidirectional edge states in topological photonic structures will be covered. On the reciprocal systems, the discussions will be focused on asymmetric effects (transmission, absorption) based on polarization conversion and on the excitation of higher diffraction orders (along with relevant nonlinear aspects and the existence of unidirectional topological states in all-dielectric metamaterials).

List of teachers (alphabetically):

Andrea Alù, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center

Manolis Antonoyiannakis, Senior Associate Editor and Bibliostatistics Analyst, Americal Physical Society

Christos Argyropoulos, Penn State University

Christophe Caloz, KU Leven, Belgium

Alex Khanikaev, The City College of New York, USA

Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Mário Silveirinha, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Andriy Serebryannikov, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Dimitrios Sounas, Wayne State University, USA

Sergei Tretyakov, Aalto University, Finland

Rachel Won, International Editor, Nature Photonics