Subject：Semiconductor Metasurfaces and applications
Speaker：Prof. PATRICE GENEVET
Emcee：Prof. Konstantin E. Dorfman
Time：11:00am, 26th Oct, 2019
Place：Optics Building A408
Abstract：
The advance in designing arrays of ultrathin two-dimensional optical nanoresonators, known as metasurfaces, is currently enabling a large variety of novel flat optical components 1-3. Owing to the versatility and the capabilities of metasurfaces, many exotic and peculiar optical phenomena ranging from negative refraction, sub-diffraction optical microscopy, and broad band achromatic lenses have been demonstrated recently. Most of these designs have been engineered by doing large and costly parametric search to obtain the optical response of individual building blocks. Remarkably, complex designs such as broadband and multiplexed interfaces exclusively rely on sub-units of near-field coupled antennas to achieve the required scattering responses. The inherent complexity of the latter designs result in poorly efficient components, indicating that the stringent design and fabrication requirements are failing to achieve designs of realistic imaging devices.
About the Speaker:
Current Position
2015 CNRS research Scientist I, (charge de recherche)
Centre de Recherche sur l'hetero-epitaxie et ses applications, Valbonne, France.
Previous research Positions and Education
2014 Senior Research Scientist I, grade 4
A*STAR, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, 71 Nanyang Drive, 638075, Singapore.
2011-2014 Research Associate at Harvard University
Development of ultra-thin plasmonic interfaces for controlling light.
2009-2011 Post-Doctoral fellow at Harvard University in Prof. Capasso group in collaboration with Prof. Marlan O. Scully (Texas A&M University). Investigation of plasmonic structures for linear and nonlinear optics and spectroscopy.
2006-2009 Ph.D in physics at University of Nice Sophia Antipolis under the direction of Prof. J.R. Tredicce and Dr. S. Barland. Title of the thesis: “Localized lasing structures in broad area coupled microresonators”. Thesis defended October, 9, 2009 mention “très honorable”. University teacher formation (“Monitorat d’initiation à l’enseignement supérieur”, Univ. Of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France).
2004-2006 Master OMEGA option Nonlinear Dynamics at the University Côte d’Azur (UCA), mention “très bien” obtained in july 2006.
