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We experimentally demonstrate intensity and phase modulation of terahertz radiation using actively controlled large-area planar metamaterial (metafilm) hybridized with a 12 um thick layer of a liquid crystal. Active control was introduced…

It is well-known that band gaps, in the frequency domain, can be achieved by using periodic metamaterials. However it has been challenging to design materials with broad band gaps or that have multiple overlapping band gaps. For periodic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Paulo S. Piva , Art L. Gower , I. David Abrahams

Metasurfaces, a two-dimensional (2D) form of metamaterials constituted by planar meta-atoms, exhibit exotic abilities to freely tailor electromagnetic (EM) waves. Over the past decade, tunable metasurfaces have come to the frontier in the…

The invisibility cloak has been a long-standing dream for many researchers over the decades. By transforming space and light propagation, a three-dimensional (3D) object can be perceived as having reduced number of dimensions, in the form…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-18 Fan Zhou , Yongjun Bao , Wei Cao , Jianqiang Gu , Weili Zhang , Cheng Sun

Dense lattices of photonic crystals can serve as artificial materials, with light propagation in these structures described by effective material parameters that surpass the capabilities of natural materials. In this study, we introduce a…

Recent studies have developed tunable topological elastic metamaterials to maximize performance in the presence of varying external conditions, adapt to changing operating requirements, and enable new functionalities such as a programmable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Patrick Dorin , Kon-Well Wang

Through the integration of semiconductors or complex oxides into metal resonators, tunable metamaterials have been achieved by a change of environment using an external stimulus. Metals provide high conductivity to realize a strong resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Ranjan Singh , Jie Xiong , Abul K. Azad , Hao Yang , Stuart A. Trugman , Q. X. Jia , Antoinette J. Taylor , Hou-Tong Chen

In this paper we present a novel telescope composed exclusively of thin, flat optical elements, each being a hot-pressed multi-layered structure combining the properties of a lens, its anti-reflection coating and frequency selection or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Giorgio Savini , Peter Hargrave , Peter A. R. Ade , Alexey Shitvov , Rashmi Sudiwala , Giampaolo Pisano , Carole Tucker , Jin Zhang

By harnessing the resonant nature of localized electromagnetic modes in a nanostructured silicon membrane, an all-dielectric metamaterial can act as nonlinear medium at optical telecommunications wavelengths. We show that such metamaterials…

A thin metamaterial slab comprising a dielectric spacer sandwiched between a metallic grating and a ground plane is shown to possess spatially coherent surface resonance states that span a large frequency range and can be tuned by…

This article discusses electromagnetic properties of volumetric metamaterial samples with essentially discrete structure, that is, assembled as a periodic array of electromagnetic resonators. We develop an efficient numerical procedure for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Aleksander O. Makarenko , Maxim A. Yurkin , Alexey A. Shcherbakov , Mikhail Lapine

Practical design parameters of resonant metamaterials, such as loss tangent, are derived in terms of the quality factor $Q$ of the resonant effective medium permeability or permittivity. Through electromagnetic simulations of loop-based…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Steven A. Cummer , Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Thomas H. Hand

We present a new type of electromagnetic planar metamaterial that exhibit strong dispersion at a local minimum of losses and is believed to be the first metamaterial analog of electromagnetically induced transparency. We demonstrate that…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-03 N. Papasimakis , V. A. Fedotov , S. L. Prosvirnin , N. I. Zheludev

The effective medium representation is fundamental in providing a performance-to-design approach for many devices based on metamaterials. While there are recent works in extending the effective medium concept into the temporal domain, a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Xinhua Wen , Xinghong Zhu , Hong Wei Wu , Jensen Li

Manipulating intensity, phase and polarization of the electromagnetic fields on ultrafast timescales is essential for all-optical switching, optical information processing and development of novel time-variant media. Noble metal based…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-26 Jingyi Wu , Anton Yu. Bykov , Anastasiia Zaleska , Anatoly V. Zayats

Metamaterials--artificially structured materials with tailored electromagnetic response--can be designed to have properties difficult to achieve with existing materials. Here we present a structured metamaterial, based on conducting split…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. R. Smith , J. J. Mock , A. F. Starr , D. Schurig

Terahertz communications is a promising modality for future short-range point-to point wireless data transmission at rates up to terabit per second. A milestone towards this goal is the development of an integrated transmitter and receiver…

We designed a cut-wire-pair metasurface that works as a transparent terahertz half-wave plate, by matching the electric and magnetic resonances of the structure. Due to the impedance matching nature of the resonances, a large transmission…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-31 Yosuke Nakata , Yudai Taira , Toshihiro Nakanishi , Fumiaki Miyamaru

In this paper we consider a two-dimensional metamaterial comprising an array of qubits (two level quantum objects). Here we show that a two-dimensional quantum metamaterial may be controlled, e.g. via the application of a magnetic flux, so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 M. J. Everitt , J. H. Samson , S. E. Savelev , T. P. Spiller , R. Wilson , A. M. Zagoskin

Fabrication of metasurfaces is ofthen time consuming and expensive, involving complex lithographic processes. The maskless fabrication of metasurfaces composed of rectangular Au bars is reported as a suitable alternative, providing…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-24 Michael McLamb , Yanzeng Li , Paige Stinson , Tino Hofmann