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All known proper ferroelectrics are unable to polarize normal to a surface or interface if the resulting depolarization field is unscreened, but there is no fundamental principle that enforces this behavior. In this work, we introduce…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-01 Kevin F. Garrity , Karin M. Rabe , David Vanderbilt

Metamaterials are known to exhibit a variety of electromagnetic properties non-existing in nature. We show that an all-dielectric (non-magnetic) system consisting of deep subwavelength, high permittivity resonant spheres possess effective…

Ferroelectric and two-dimensional materials are both heavily investigated classes of electronic materials. This is unsurprising since they both have superlative fundamental properties and high-value applications in computing, sensing etc.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Chloe Leblanc , Seunguk Song , Deep Jariwala

Metasurfaces are generally designed by placing scatterers in a periodic grid. We propose and discuss design rules for efficient random and functional metasurfaces with anisotropic elements. We investigate the impact of the elements density…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-05 Matthieu Dupré , Liyi Hsu , Boubacar Kanté

Conductive organic polymers can be formulated with polymers that incorporate fine dispersed metallic particles. In this work, we present a general model for ferrogels which are chemically cross-linked polymer networks swollen with a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 J. P. Huang

Controlling electromagnetic energy is essential for an efficient and sustainable society. A key requirement is concentrating magnetic energy in a desired volume of space in order to either extract the energy to produce work or store it.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Jordi Prat-Camps , Carles Navau , Alvaro Sanchez

Composite multiferroics, heterostructures of ferromagnetic (FM) and ferroelectric (FE) materials, are characterized by a remarkable magnetoelectric effect at the interface. Previous work has supported the ferromagnetic structure with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 Zidong Wang , Malcolm J. Grimson

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that manipulate electromagnetic waves, having optical properties absent in natural materials. Recently, machine learning for the inverse design of metamaterials has drawn attention.…

Harnessing artificial optical magnetism requires rather complex two- and three-dimensional structures, examples include split-ring and fishnet metamaterials and nanoparticles with non-trivial magnetic properties. By contrast, dielectric…

Ferroelectrics have a spontaneous electrical polarization that is arranged into domains and can be reversed by an externally applied field. This high versatility makes them useful in enabling components such as capacitors, sensors, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-29 J. Schultheiß , G. Picht , J. Wang , Y. A. Genenko , L. Q. Chen , J. E. Daniels , J. Koruza

Photonic crystals and metamaterials represent two seemingly different classes of artificial electromagnetic media but often they are composed of similar structural elements arranged in periodic lattices. The important question is how to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 Mikhail V. Rybin , Dmitry S. Filonov , Kirill B. Samusev , Pavel A. Belov , Yuri S. Kivshar , Mikhail F. Limonov

We investigate numerically the homogenized permittivities of composites made of low index dielectric inclusions in a ferroelectric matrix under a static electric field. A refined model is used to take into account the coupling between the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Benjamin Vial , Yang Hao

Ferroelectricity is usually found in compound materials composed by different elements. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we reveal the first example of spontaneous electrical polarization and ferroelectricity in stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-20 Chengcheng Xiao , Fang Wang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu

We derive from first principles an accurate homogenized description of periodic metamaterials made of magnetodielectric inclusions, highlighting and overcoming relevant limitations of standard homogenization methods. We obtain closed-form…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Andrea Alu

It is demonstrated based on continuum mechanics modeling and simulation that it is possible to obtain polycrystalline ceramic ferroelectric materials which beggars single crystals in electromechanical properties. The local inhomogeneities…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-15 K. P. Jayachandran , J. M. Guedes , H. C. Rodrigues

Magnetic nano-objects possess great potential for more efficient data processing, storage and neuromorphic type of applications. Using high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy synthetic antiferromagnets in the form of multilayer-based…

We present a new class of artificial materials which exhibit a tailored response to the electrical component of electromagnetic radiation. These electric metamaterials (EM-MMs) are investigated theoretically, computationally, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. Padilla , M. T. Aronsson , C. Highstrete , Mark Lee , A. J. Taylor , R. D. Averitt

We develop theoretical arguments that demonstrate the possibility of metallic field-effect transistors (METFET's) in one-dimensional systems and particularly in armchair carbon nanotubes. A very inhomogeneous electric field, such as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-12 Slava V. Rotkin , Karl Hess

Nanostructured metamaterials, especially arrays of metallic nanoparticles which sustain the excitation of localized plasmon polaritons, provide excellent opportunities to mold the flow of light in the linear regime. We suggest a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Rockstuhl , C. R. Simovski , S. A. Tretyakov , F. Lederer

We analyze nonlinear properties of microstructured materials with negative refraction, the so-called left-handed metamaterials. We consider a two-dimensional periodic structure created by arrays of wires and split-ring resonators embedded…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Zharov , Ilya V. Shadrivov , Yuri S. Kivshar