Lecture, 3 credits, 3 hours per week. Pre-requisites: General Physics II. The objective of Optical Materials and Devices is to introduce the fundamental knowledge of Maxwell’s equations and the nature of light-matter interaction in both homogenous and artificial materials, and concept of how to apply the theory of electromagnetism to a range of applications. Topics cover includes the propagation of light, the vectorial nature of light, coherence, interference and diffractions of light, optical properties of solids, photonic crystals, plasmonics, metamaterials and metasurfaces.