This two-part book Volume on Semiconductor Metamaterials will survey the state-of-the-art in material platforms for optical metasurfaces. Part 1 will focus on materials for active metasurfaces, including tuning and sensing applications and will include chapters on Phase-Change Materials, Phase-Transition Materials and Soft Matter materials, as well as metasurface materials for polarization sensing, catalysis and chemical reactions. Part 2 will focus on static metasurfaces for light generation and detection. Materials employed for light emitting metasurfaces, metasurfaces operating in the ultraviolet, visible and infrared regions and metasurfaces from c2 materials will all be discussed.
1. Metasurfaces from x2 -materials
2. Light Emitting Metasurfaces based on Direct Bandgap Semiconductors
3. Infrared Metasurfaces
4. UV/ Visible Metasurfaces
Dr. Martin Hafermann is a research associate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena where he explores the use of ion beams to modify various material platforms for enhanced optical applications. He earned his PhD in 2021 at FSU Jena investigating ion-beam modified phase-change materials for metasurfaces.
Dr. Sarah Walden is a lecturer at Griffith University investigating tuneable nanophotonic devices using stimuli-responsive materials. In 2017 Sarah completed a PhD at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), investigating the nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor nanoparticles. After her PhD, she became a Postdoctoral Fellow jointly between the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory at QUT and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), investigating new materials for photolithography. In 2022, Sarah commenced a Zukunfts Fellowship at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where she applied stimuli-responsive polymers for tuneable metasurface devices.
