msepostdoc-list Fwd: Bagwell Lecture - hosted by Birck Nanotechnology Center

[Donna Bystrom]

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*New frontiers in Optics and Photonics with Designer Electronic and 
Optical Materials*

Federico Capasso

/capasso at seas.harvard.edu/

/School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, MA 02138/

The control of electrons and photons in artificially structured 
materials at the nanoscale by quantum and electromagnetic design has 
opened unique opportunities for major advances in science and 
technology. I will present a tutorial account of some these 
developments. From the design of the electronic resonances and their 
coupling to light in nanometer thick materials a new class of light 
sources (quantum cascade lasers) has emerged that now cover almost the 
entire infrared and far-infrared spectrum, leading to an explosive 
growth in applications. By structuring surfaces at the sub-wavelength 
with nanoscale optical resonators and nanometer thin layers 
“metasurfaces" have emerged that have led to powerful generalizations of 
the laws or reflection and refraction, new thin film interferences and 
new ways to generate light beams and surface optical waves with 
“arbitrary” wavefronts. Applications of this new “flat optics” will be 
presented. Finally, I will show how quantum fluctuations at the 
nanoscale can be designed to control macroscopic quantum 
electrodynamical phenomena such as attractive and repulsive Casimir 
forces and their interaction with micro/nanomechanical structures.

*Federico Capasso *is the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at 
Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after a 27 years career at 
Bell Labs where he did research, became Bell Labs Fellow and held 
several management positions including Vice President for Physical 
Research. His research has spanned basic science and applications in the 
areas of electronics, photonics, nanoscale science and technology 
including plasmonics, metasurfaces and the Casimir effect. He pioneered 
banstructure engineering of artificially structured materials and 
devices and invented the quantum cascade laser. He performed the first 
measurement of the repulsive Casimir force. He and his group recently 
discovered powerful generalizations of the laws of reflection and 
refraction applicable to metasurfaces and demonstrated that the latter 
can be used to design new planar optical components (flat optics). He is 
a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of 
Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; His 
awards include the King Faisal International Prize for Science, the 
American Physical Society Arthur Schawlow Prize, the Wetherill Medal of 
the Franklin Institute, the IEEE Edison Medal, the SPIE Gold Medal, the 
European Physical Society Quantum Electronics Prize; the Berthold 
Leibinger Zukunftspreis (the future prize), the Julius Springer Prize 
for Applied Physics, the Jan Czochralski Award of the European Material 
Research Society for lifetime achievements in Materials Science; the 
IEEE D. Sarnoff Award in Electronics, the IEEE/LEOS Streifer Award, the 
Optical Society of America Robert Wood prize, the Rank Prize in 
Optoelectronics, the Material Research Society Medal, the Welker Medal, 
the Duddell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (UK), the 
Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, the “Vinci of Excellence” LMVH Prize and the New York 
Academy of Sciences Award.

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*/Jaime Turner/*

*Birck Nanotechnology Center*

*1205 West State Street*

*West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057*

*Email: jjturner at purdue.edu <mailto:jjturner at purdue.edu>*

*Phone: 765-494-3509*

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