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We formulate and demonstrate experimentally the high-resolution spectral method based on Bloch-wave symmetry properties for extracting mode dispersion in periodic waveguides from measurements of near-field profiles. We characterize both the…

Temporal metamaterials, created by modulating the refractive index in time, offer powerful means of controlling wave propagation but still lack a systematic design methodology. Here, we develop an analytic inverse-design framework rooted in…

Electromagnetic metamaterials offer a great avenue to engineer and amplify the nonlinear response of materials. Their electric, magnetic, and magneto-electric linear and nonlinear response are related to their structure, providing…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Stéphane Larouche , Vesna Radisic

Bloch wave homogenization is a spectral method for obtaining effective coefficients for periodically heterogeneous media. This method hinges on the direct integral decomposition of periodic operators, which is not available in a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Sivaji Ganesh Sista , Vivek Tewary

This paper presents a simple and effective wideband method for the determination of material properties, such as the complex index of refraction and the complex permittivity and permeability. The method is explicit (non-iterative) and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-12-02 Khattiya Chalapat , Kari Sarvala , Jian Li , G. S. Paraoanu

A robust wedge setup is proposed to unambiguously demonstrate negative refraction for negative index metamaterials. We applied our setup to several optical metamaterials from the literature and distinctly observed the phenomena of negative…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-03 Nian-Hai Shen , Thomas Koschny , Maria Kafesaki , Costas M. Soukoulis

With the Marchenko method it is possible to retrieve the wave field inside a medium from its reflection response at the surface. To date, this method has predominantly been applied to naturally occurring materials. In this paper we extend…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Kees Wapenaar

We develop a dynamical effective medium theory to accurately predict the unusual properties of elastic metamaterials in two dimensions near the resonant frequencies. The theory shows that the effective bulk modulus, shear modulus, and mass…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-10 Ying Wu , Yun Lai , Zhao-Qing Zhang

We analyze the reflection and transmission coefficients calculated from transfer matrix simulations on finite lenghts of electromagnetic metamaterials, to determine the effective permittivity and permeability. We perform this analysis on…

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We present a general method for retrieving the effective tensorial permittivity of any uniaxially anisotropic metamaterial. By relaxing the usually imposed condition of non-magnetic metal/dielectric metamaterials, we also retrieve the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Georgia T. Papadakis , Pochi Yeh , Harry A. Atwater

Metamaterial effective parameters may exhibit freedom from typical dispersion constraints. For instance, the emergence of a magnetic response in arrays of split-ring resonators for long wavelengths cannot be attained in a passive continuous…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-13 Christopher A. Dirdal , Tarjei Bondevik , Johannes Skaar

We report numerical experiments of optical wave propagation in composites of high refractive index dielectric rods at frequencies where their first electric and magnetic Mie resonances are excited. The arrays of these particles have been…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. J. Valdivia-Valero , M. Nieto-Vesperinas

In this paper, we propose an unfitted Nitsche's method for computing wave modes in topological materials. The proposed method is based on Nitsche's technique to study the performance-enhanced topological materials which have strongly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Hailong Guo , Xu Yang , Yi Zhu

It is common for dispersion curves of damped periodic materials to be based on real frequencies versus complex wavenumbers or, conversely, real wavenumbers versus complex frequencies. The former condition corresponds to harmonic wave motion…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-26 Michael J. Frazier , Mahmoud I. Hussein

We determine rigorously the effective permeability of magnetic metamaterials composed of passive particles exhibiting magnetic resonances. The effective permeability is expressed in terms of circuit parameters characteristic to these…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Steven A. Cummer

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…

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The authors introduce a general mechanism, based on electrostatic and magnetostatic considerations, for designing three-dimensional isotopic metamaterials that possess an enhanced refractive index over an extremely large frequency range.…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonghwa Shin , Jung-Tsung Shen , Shanhui Fan

Hyperbolic metamaterials were initially proposed in optics to boost radiation efficiencies of quantum emitters. Adopting this concept for antenna design can allow approaching long-standing challenges in radio physics. For example, impedance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Ildar Yusupov , Dmitry Filonov , Tatyana Vosheva , Viktor Podolsky , Pavel Ginzburg

We present an analytical model which permits the calculation of effective material parameters for planar metamaterials consisting of arbitrary unit cells (metaatoms) formed by a set of straight wire sections of potentially different shape.…