Advanced Electromagnetism (AEM) Laboratory

The main scope of the Advanced Electromagnetism Laboratory is investigation of light interaction with artificial materials. Diverse numerical and analytical methods are being developed and applied to simulation and optimization of electromagnetic properties of light scattering particles or resonators, finite size functional ensembles of such objects, and random or ordered discrete media.

Novel applications in the field of energy technology (passive heat reflectors, photovoltaics) and medicine (diagnostic or therapeutic agents) show the immense value of optical particles to contribute significantly to important technological solutions. In many of these application areas, features of the particles (size, shape, material distribution) can be on the nanoscale, a fact which is often fundamentally important to their desirable properties. With the broad range of product areas, future development of new optical materials requires an intimate understanding of this microstructure-function relationship. The outcome of this research might be materials with optical properties that are never observed in naturally available materials, the metamaterials.

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Subwavelength electromagnetic resonators

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Ellipsometric investigation of nanostructured systems

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T-matrix approach to multiple scattering

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