Nanoantennas and Plasmonics

Douglas Werner is a professor of electrical engineering and the director of the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL), as well as a member of the Materials Research Institute (MRI), at Penn State University. Professor Werner has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work in the areas of electromagnetics and optics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IET, the OSA, the ACES, and the PIERS Electromagnetics Academy. He is also a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). Sawyer Campbell is an assistant research professor in the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University. He has published over 80 technical papers and proceedings articles and is the author/co-author of three book chapters. He is a member of the IEEE, the APS, the OSA, and SPIE and is the past Chair and Current vice-Chair/Treasurer of the IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section. Lei Kang is an assistant research professor in the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab (CEARL) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers and is the co-author of one book chapter. His research interests include metamaterials at both RF and optical frequencies and nanophotonics.

Chapter 1: Optical properties of plasmonic nanoloop antennas
Chapter 2: Passive and active nano cylinders for enhanced and directive radiation and scattering phenomena
Chapter 3: Coherent control of light scattering
Chapter 4: Time domain modeling with the generalized dispersive material model
Chapter 5: Inverse-design of plasmonic and dielectric optical nanoantennas
Chapter 6: Multi-level carrier kinetics models for computational nanophotonics
Chapter 7: Nonlinear multipolar interference: from nonreciprocal directionality to one-way nonlinear mirror
Chapter 8: Plasmonic metasurfaces for controlling harmonic generations
Chapter 9: Optical nanoantennas for enhanced THz emission
Chapter 10: Active photonics based on phase-change materials and reconfigurable nanowire systems
Chapter 11: Dancing angels on the point of a needle: nanofabrication for subwavelength optics