Metamaterials are artificial materials consisting of micro or nano composites which exhibit properties different from their components in sub-wavelength regime. These materials are finding applications in several areas such as sensing, sub-diffractive imaging, negative refractive index materials, perfect absorption, Huygen’s lens and quantum technologies. More recently all-dielectric metamaterials have been garnering much attention due to the reduction in the dissipative losses which their metallic counterparts suffer from. Our research involves understanding the light-matter interactions in all-dielectric materials using simulations and designing reconfigurable multi-functional dielectric devices for applications in sensing, energy harvesting and quantum technologies. In the talk, I will briefly discuss the overview of our research area and give details of some recent findings on tunable soft-metamaterials.
