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Dynamic control of metamaterials and metasurfaces is crucial for many photonic technologies, such as flat lenses, displays, augmented reality devices, and beam steering, to name a few. The dynamic response is typically achieved by…
Metamaterials are artificial structures with unique electromagnetic properties, such as relative dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability with values less than 1, or even negative. Because these properties are so sensitive to loss,…
We investigate the use of coherent optical fields as a means of dynamically controlling the resonant behaviour of a variety of composite metamaterials, wherein the metamaterial structures are embedded in a dispersive dielectric medium.…
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…
Different periodical Frequency Selective Surfaces(FSS) whose unit cell are the Split Ring Resonators (SRR) or related geometries and their corresponding complementary screens were studied. This kind of FSS, sometimes called metasurfaces,…
We demonstrate the active tuning of all-dielectric metasurfaces exhibiting high-quality factor (high-Q) resonances. The active control is provided by embedding the asymmetric silicon meta-atoms with liquid crystals, which allows the…
Plasmonic metamaterials support the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), which is sensitive to the change in the dielectric environment and highly desirable for ultrasensitive biochemical sensing. In this work, a novel design of…
A multichannel thin-film sensor is implemented from a set of microstrip-coupled split-ring resonators (SRR's) with different dimensions. Each SRR exhibits a unique high-Q resonance that is sensitive to the presence of a sample in a…
Using terahertz time domain spectroscopy we investigate the normal incidence transmission through periodically and randomly arranged planar split ring resonators (SRRs). Introduction of positional disorder in metamaterials has no effect on…
We present optically tunable magnetic 3D metamaterials at terahertz (THz) frequencies which exhibit a tuning range of ~30% of the resonance frequency. This is accomplished by fabricating 3D array structures consisting of double-split-ring…
Dielectric metasurfaces can show multi-resonant response with high Q-factors in the visible range due to multipole coupling. This work suggests that these collective resonances in all-dielectric metasurfaces can be modified if adjacent to…
We studied a metasurface constituted as a periodic array of semiconductor split-ring resonators. The resonance frequencies of the metasurface excited by normally incident light were found to be continuously tunable in the terahertz regime…
In this paper we describe a methodology for tailoring the design of metamaterial dielectric resonators, which represent a promising path toward low-loss metamaterials at optical frequencies. We first describe a procedure to decompose the…
In this Letter we present resonance properties in terahertz metamaterials consisting of a split-ring resonator array made from high temperature superconducting films. By varying the temperature, we observed efficient metamaterial resonance…
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…
As the variation of temperature alters the intrinsic carrier density in a semiconductor, numerical simulations indicate that the consequent variation of the relative permittivity in the terahertz regime provides a way to realize thermally…
We analyze the near-field interaction between the resonant sub-wavelength elements of a metamaterial, and present a method to calculate the electric and magnetic interaction coefficients. We show that by adjusting the relative configuration…
A novel metasurface unit cell architecture is proposed to enable independent control of the reflection magnitude and phase at a desired operation frequency, while maintaining linear polarization of the incoming fields. The proposed…
Optically resonant particles are key building blocks of many nanophotonic devices such as optical antennas and metasurfaces. Because the functionalities of such devices are largely determined by the optical properties of individual…
So far, research in the field of metamaterials has been carried out largely with arrays of flat, 2-dimensional structures. Here, we report a newly identified magnetic resonance in Split Cylinder Resonators (SCRs), a 3-dimensional version of…