Dielectric Metamaterials and Metasurfaces in Transformation Optics and Photonics

Elena Semouchkina is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological University. She received a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from Tomsk State University, in Russia, and a second PhD in Materials from the Pennsylvania State University. She was a recipient of the best PhD thesis award from the Penn State’s Materials Research Institute, and of the NSF Fellows Award from the ADVANCE Program: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers. Before joining Michigan Tech, she has been a Senior Research Associate/ Associate Professor at the Materials Research Institute/ Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics of Penn State.

1. Periodic arrays of dielectric resonators as metamaterials and photonic crystals 2. Specifics of wave propagation through chains of coupled dielectric resonators and bulk dielectric metamaterials 3. The basics of transformation optics. Realizing invisibility cloaking by using resonances in conventional and dielectric metamaterials 4. Properties of dielectric metamaterials defined by their analogy with strongly-modulated photonic crystals 5. Engineering transformation media of invisibility cloaks by using crystal-type properties of dielectric metamaterials 6. Light scattering from single dielectric particles and dielectric metasurfaces at Mie-type dipolar resonances 7. Surface lattice resonances in metasurfaces composed of silicon resonators 8. Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in metasurfaces composed from silicon or ceramic cylindrical resonators