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PV: Plenarvorträge

PV 11: PV XI

PV 11.1: Plenary Talk

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 17:20–18:00, H 0105

Metamaterials and Transformation Optics — •Martin Wegener — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Applied Physics, 76131 Karlsruhe

Metamaterials are tailored man-made materials that can exhibit properties not accessible in natural substances [1]. Transformation optics goes one step further and treats intentionally spatially inhomogeneous metamaterial structures, aiming at achieving certain functionalities like, e.g., invisibility cloaking [1]. These concepts are, however, not restricted to electromagnetic waves, but can also be applied to other types of waves, e.g., to quantum mechanical matter waves, water waves, and elastic waves in mechanics. The talk gives an introduction and presents the current experimental state-of-the-art.

[1] M. Wegener and S. Linden, Shaping Optical Space with Metamaterials, Physics Today 63, 32 (2010)