Metamaterial is a man-made material with properties beyond those provided by the Nature. The physical phenomena enabling this novel functionality will be discussed in detail and focused on important consequences for the manipulation of electromagnetic waves. Discussion of metamaterials will not be limited only to the electro-magnetic waves, but the concept will be applied for a manipulation of heat dissipation and of material waves such as sound waves or in the general sense shock waves in the solid-state.

You will learn about: (1) general concept of material response on-demand;  (2) details of physics behind metamaterial; (3) novel optical components enabled by metamaterials; (4) twisting space for electromagnetic wave propagation (transformational optics) with metamaterials; (5) metamaterials beyond the optics applied to the material waves and to the heat transfer; all demonstrated by examples in optics, microwave technique and mechanics of the solid-state.