Detailed information on the relevant special sessions on Metamaterials'2010 Congress (click on titles to download papers)

 

Scope and Limitations of Metamaterial Modelling
Organizer(s): Raj Mittra, Penn State University, United States
Session chairperson: Raj Mittra, Penn State University, United States

Tensor metamaterials based on transmission-line networks
Anthony Grbic, Radiation Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA
Gurkan Gok, Radiation Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA

Electromagnetic modeling and limitations in the homogenization of metamaterials and metasurfaces
Andrea Alu, The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America

Edge effects in finite size resonant ring metamaterials
Ricardo Marques, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Mikhail Lapine, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Lukas Jelinek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

A look at the scope and limitations of metamaterials modeling based on the equivalent medium approach
Raj Mittra, Penn State University, USA

On electromagnetic characterization of nanostructured metamaterials
Constantin Simovski, Aalto University, Finland
Sergei Tretyakov, Aalto University, Finland

 

Homogenization and Effective Medium Theories
Session chairperson: Anne de Baas, European Commission DG RTD, Belgium

Bulk and surface proxiton-polaritons in split-ring metamaterials
Ekaterina Shamonina, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Germany
Anna Radkovskaya, Magnetism Division, Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow StateUniversity, Russia

A generalization of the Lorentz's local field method accounting for strong spatial dispersion in magnetic metamaterials
J. D. Ortiz, Department of Physics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Juan Domingo Baena, Department of Physics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Homogenization of fishnet metamaterials: Possibilities and restrictions
Lukas Jelinek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Electromagnetic Field, Czech Republic
Ricardo Marques, University of Seville, Department of Electronics and Electromagnetism, Spain
Jan Machac, Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Electromagnetic Field, Czech Republic

Extraction of effective material parameters for single and multi-layer metamaterial structures
Zsolt Szabo, Advanced Plasmonics and Photonics Group, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Er Ping Li, Advanced Plasmonics and Photonics Group, A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Near resonance homogenization of split-ring metamaterials
Hicham Belyamoun, Laboratoire de Genie Electrique de Paris, France
Said Zouhdi, Laboratoire de Genie Electrique de Paris, France

 

A special session on European projects on fabrication of metamaterial nanostructures was organized within the scope of this Congress. The event was set up in cooperation with the Congress organizers and ECONAM participants.

European Projects on Fabrication of Metamaterial Nanostructures

Keynote: Anne de Baas, European Commission, Research Directorate-General for Research and Technological Development, Belgium

 

� 1. Self-organized bottom-up metamaterial based on spatially arranged nanoparticles: concepts and realizations
2. Fabrication of metamaterials using graphene
3. Nanochemistry and self-assembly routes to metamaterials for visible light. European FP7 project METACHEM
4. Protein-guided assembly of (magnetic) nanostructures