Volume-Preserving Deformation of Honeycomb Wire Media Enables Broad Plasma Frequency Tunability
Plasma Physics
2026-03-20 v3 Materials Science
Abstract
We demonstrate significant tunability of the plasma frequency in a wire medium by mechanically deforming a lattice of parallel metallic wires arranged at the nodes of a honeycomb structure. Numerical simulations predict up to 78% tunability and a proof-of-concept experiment confirms 64%, surpassing previously reported values for tunable wire media.
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@article{arxiv.2507.08156,
title = {Volume-Preserving Deformation of Honeycomb Wire Media Enables Broad Plasma Frequency Tunability},
author = {Denis Sakhno and Jim A. Enriquez and Pavel A. Belov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.08156},
year = {2026}
}