Winter College on Optics

From Monday, 24 february 2025 to Friday, 07 march 2025

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  • ICTP, Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)
ICTP, Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH) Riva Massimiliano e Carlotta, Grignano I - 34151 Trieste (Italy),

Winter College on Optics: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

An ICTP Meeting

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures with sub-wavelength spatial dimensions in general. The fundamental building block of a certain metamaterial is known as meta–atom whose specific arrangement in a periodic or aperiodic array provides a unique way of tailoring the properties and response of incident waves.

The main applications of metamaterials are found in the industrial sectors like information and communication technologies (ICT), space sciences & defense, but new applications are emerging in health, energy, and environmental areas. Some notable examples of devices realized during the past few years are sensors, super-lensing, cloaking, and light-emitting diodes using dynamic, reconfigurable, and tunable metamaterials.

This technology is being improved further in the marketplace by metamaterials that provide added value over and above state-of-the-art approaches. The World Economic Forum listed plasmonic metamaterials as one of the ten emerging technologies in 2018. Also, the Global Metamaterials Market survey by Mforesight in 2018 predicts a compound annual growth of 36.4% in the next five years.

Keeping this unprecedented potential of metamaterials in view, the ICTP Winter College of 2025 will cover various types of metamaterials such as electromagnetic, planer/flat (metasurfaces), acoustics, thermal, mechanical, low-dimensional, etc.

 

Topics:

  • Physics and Engineering of Complex Electromagnetic Metamaterials
  • Analytical, Semi-analytical, and Numerical Modelling of Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
  • Fabrication and Experimental Characterization of Metamaterials
  • Intelligent Design for Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
  • Engineering Non-linear Light-matter Interactions Through Metasurfaces
  • Tunable and Reconfigurable Metamaterial and Metasurfaces
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G (and beyond) Applications
  • Plasmonics Metamaterials and Metasurfaces to Engineer Resonances and Scattering
  • Metamaterials for Super-resolution and Near-field Imaging: Effects and Devices
  • Device to System level Meta-optics for Next-generation Imaging and Sensing Applications
  • RF and Microwave Metamaterials: Design, Properties, Applications
  • Millimeter Wave/THz Metamaterials and Applications
  • Extraordinary Absorption and Transmission through Acoustic Metamaterials
  • Chiro-optical and Asymmetric Phenomena through Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
  • 2D and Transdimensional Metasurfaces for Enchanted Light-matter Interactions
  • Photonics Crystals for Light Confinement and Guiding

 

More info: https://indico.ictp.it/event/10823