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NSF Materials World Network: Nonlinear Optical Metamaterials - Fabrication, Characterization, Theory

NSF 材料世界网络：非线性光学超材料 - 制造、表征、理论

基本信息

批准号：
EP/G030502/1
负责人：
Nicolae Panoiu
金额：
$ 23.19万
依托单位：
University College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2008 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FG030502%2F1
关键词：
NSF Materials World Network Nonlinear

项目摘要

This NSF Materials World Network Program allows research into a new class of artificial nanophotonic materials, which make use of our ability to use nanofabrication in conjunction with intrinsic materials properties to tailor the linear and nonlinear optical response of those metamaterials. The main challenges towards a comprehensive understanding and experimental realization of nonlinear optical properties of metamaterials are that a theory of surface and bulk nonlinear optics of metamaterials is yet to be developed, and a practical means to fabricate and test such a theory are missing as well. The main goal of this research program is to achieve these milestones. The program synergistically matches three collaborators, two in the UK and one in the US, with an established record of collaboration to investigate the properties and materials strategies for fabricating these materials. The central rationale for the group is that the UK group provides strong theoretical and fabrication capabilities while the US group provides fabrication, optical testing, and materials capabilities. In addition, we will make use of local instrumentation capabilities in both the UK and the US to fabricate and test these materials. The program is constructed to enable travel to and from each country by students and to a more limited extent the professors. The research to be undertaken here has several areas of broad impact. First, it is a project, which will foster an interdisciplinary examination of the fundamental materials science of artificial metamaterials, which includes fabrication, materials physics, optical physics, and theory. Second it will enable two groups in the US and the UK, with a strong history of interactions and complementary expertise and capabilities to collaborate. This work will involve the opportunity for both graduate and undergraduate students to collaborate and travel in an international setting. Third, the program has concrete plans and procedures to seek out recruitment of diverse student collaborators. Our immediate record in this area is strong including one woman PhD student in theory and two undergraduates. Recruitment for this program will be done via four outreach talks to undergrads at Columbia in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Departments every year via active participation in research opportunities for undergraduates and undergraduate research opportunities program at Columbia. Fourth, the project will enable students to collaborate via extended visits and shorter trips with a major National Laboratory, i.e. Brookhaven, in their new Nanocenter, which one of the PIs was the founding director, as well as the London Centre for Nanotechnology, a facility shared by the University College London and Imperial College London.

NSF材料世界网络计划允许研究一种新型的人造纳米光子材料，这种材料利用我们利用纳米制造与固有材料特性相结合的能力来定制这些超材料的线性和非线性光学响应。对超材料非线性光学性质的全面理解和实验实现的主要挑战是，超材料的表面和体非线性光学理论尚未发展，也缺乏制造和测试这种理论的实用手段。这项研究计划的主要目标是实现这些里程碑。该项目协同匹配了三名合作者，其中两名在英国，一名在美国，他们有研究制造这些材料的性能和材料策略的既定合作记录。该集团的核心理由是，英国集团提供强大的理论和制造能力，而美国集团提供制造、光学测试和材料能力。此外，我们将利用英国和美国的本地仪器能力来制造和测试这些材料。该计划旨在允许学生和教授在更有限的程度上往返于每个国家。将在这里进行的研究具有几个广泛影响的领域。首先，这是一个项目，将促进对人造超材料基础材料科学的跨学科审查，其中包括制造、材料物理、光学物理和理论。其次，它将使美国和英国的两个组织能够进行合作，这两个组织有着深厚的互动历史，并拥有互补的专业知识和能力。这项工作将为研究生和本科生提供在国际环境中合作和旅行的机会。第三，该项目有具体的计划和程序来寻找不同的学生合作者的招募。我们在这一领域的直接记录很好，包括一名理论博士生和两名本科生。该项目的招聘将通过每年面向哥伦比亚大学电气工程、应用物理和应用数学系本科生的四次外展讲座进行，通过积极参与哥伦比亚大学本科生研究机会和本科生研究机会计划。第四，该项目将使学生能够通过延长访问和缩短行程与新成立的纳米中心的主要国家实验室，即布鲁克海文国家实验室以及伦敦纳米技术中心(伦敦纳米技术中心，由伦敦大学学院和帝国学院共享)进行合作。