Alexandra Boltasseva
Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Mordechai (Moti) Segev
Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor of Physics and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technion–Israel Institute of Technology
The recent advent of tailorable photonic materials such as plasmonic ceramics including transition metal nitrides (TMNs), MXenes, Weyl semimetals and transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) is currently driving the development of new concepts and devices for IT, communication, energy and quantum technologies. In addition to great tailorability of their optical properties, strong plasmonic behavior, optical nonlinearities, these materials offer pathways to uncovering new optical and quantum phenomena ranging from epsilon-near-zero behavior and control of quantum emitter radiation to transdimensional photonics and strongly correlated Wigner crystals. This project will explore extreme nonlinear optics, XUV and quantum light generation as well as new classical and quantum phenomena related to strong light confinement and metal-to-insulator transition in these emerging materials.