Nanostructured hyperbolic metamaterials: physics and devices

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Nanotechnology has paved the way for artificial materials which have electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal and acoustic properties beyond those which are ordinarily found in nature. According to many published technological roadmaps, merging photonics and nanotechnologies holds the promise:- to usher in a new generation of imaging devices for biomedical applications, to drive nanophotonics research for sustaining Moore's law and even address pressing societal needs of solar energy harvesting. The central theme of this research proposal is the understanding of the essential physics for new photonic devices based on nanofabricated metamaterials, where the bulk macroscopic material properties are governed and tailored at will, according to the constituent nanostructured building blocks.