Applications of hyperbolic metamaterial substrates
Optics
2012-12-10 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Abstract
We review the properties of hyperbolic metamaterials and show that they are promising candidates as substrates for nano-imaging, nano-sensing, fluorescence engineering and for controlling thermal emission. Hyperbolic metamaterials can support unique bulk modes, tunable surface plasmon polaritons as well as surface hyperbolic states (Dyakonov plasmons) that can be used for a variety of applications. We compare the effective medium predictions with practical realizations of hyperbolic metamaterials to show their potential for radiative decay engineering, bio-imaging, sub-surface sensing, meta-plasmonics and super-Planckian thermal emission.
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@article{arxiv.1211.0980,
title = {Applications of hyperbolic metamaterial substrates},
author = {Yu Guo and Ward Newman and Cristian L. Cortes and Zubin Jacob},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0980},
year = {2012}
}