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Theoretical, numerical and experimental results examining thermoviscous losses in sonic crystals are presented in this work, enabling the fabrication and characterization of an acoustic metamaterial absorber with complex-valued anisotropic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Matthew D. Guild , Victor M. Garcia-Chocano , Weiwei Kan , José Sánchez-Dehesa

Monitoring and controlling the state of polarization of electromagnetic waves is of significant interest for various basic and practical applications such as linear position sensing and medical imaging. Here, we propose the first conformal…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-08 Javad Shabanpour , Sina Beyraghi , Fardin Ghorbani , Homayoon Oraizi

A concept of ultra-thin low frequency perfect sound absorber is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. To minimize non-linear effects, an high ratio of active area to total area is used to avoid large localized amplitudes. The absorber…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yves Aurégan

Solar arrays are the primary energy source of the satellite. In this paper, a metamaterial absorber for solar arrays with simultaneous high optical transparency and broadband microwave absorption is presented. By tailoring the reflection…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Xiangkun Kong , Shunliu Jiang , Lingqi Kong , Qi Wang , Haobin Hu , Xiang Zhang , Xing Zhao

The metamaterial based on two planar photonic crystals was used on experimental express analysis of liquids. The metamaterial operates at a frequency of about 9.5 GHz, and has a small size. It was shown experimentally that when the liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-24 Sergey Polevoy , Arthur Vakula , Sergey Nedukh , Sergey Tarapov

Designing broadband metamaterial perfect absorbers is challenging due to the intrinsically narrow bandwidth of surface plasmon resonances. Here, the paper reports an ultra-broadband metamaterial absorber by using space filling Gosper curve.…

Mid-infrared spectroscopy enables biochemical sensing by identifying vibrational molecular fingerprints, but it faces limitations in instrumentation portability and analytical sensitivity. Optical metasurfaces with strong mid-IR photonic…

A highly-efficient multi-resonant RF energy-harvesting rectenna based on a metamaterial perfect absorber featuring closely-spaced polarization-independent absorption modes is presented. Its effective area is larger than its physical area,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 Clayton Fowler , Jiangfeng Zhou

Active metasurfaces promise spatiotemporal control over optical wavefronts, but achieving high-speed modulation with pixel-level control has remained an unmet challenge. While local phase control can be achieved with nanoscale optical…

Shaping and steering of light beams is essential in many modern applications, ranging from optical tweezers, camera lenses, vision correction to 3D displays. However, current realisations require increasingly greater tunability and aim for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-14 Urban Mur , Miha Ravnik , David Seč

We present a tunable liquid crystal device that converts pure orbital angular momentum eigenmodes of a light beam into equal-weight superpositions of opposite-handed eigenmodes and vice versa. For specific input states, the device may thus…

Metamaterials can be engineered with tunable bandgaps to adapt to dynamic and complex environments, particularly for controlling elastic waves and vibration. However, achieving wide-range, seamless, reversible, in-situ and robust tunability…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Xin Fang , Jihong Wen , Dianlong Yu , Peter Gumbsch , Huajian Gao

Time-invariant photonic structures amplify or absorb light based on their intrinsic material gain or loss. The coherent interference of multiple beams in space, e.g., in a resonator, can be exploited to tailor the wave interaction with…

A new design of a microwave-range ENZ metamaterial consisting of rods with an obround cross-section is proposed. The plasma frequency of the metamaterial can be tuned by rotating the constituent meta-atoms. Tunability of the plasma…

We explore a versatile technique for inverse designing 2D photonic crystal metasurfaces. These surfaces, known for their ability to manipulate light-matter interactions, can be precisely controlled to achieve specific functionalities. The…

We experimentally report perfect acoustic absorption through the interplay of the inherent losses and transparent modes with high $Q$ factor. These modes are generated in a two-port, one-dimensional waveguide which is side-loaded by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 A. Merkel , G. Theocharis , O. Richoux , V. Romero-García , V. Pagneux

We propose a thin, compact, broadband, polarization and angle insensitive metamaterial absorber based on a tungsten reflector, silicon spacer and a top pattern composed of a double square-like ring resonator utilizing nickel(Ni). In such a…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-02 Henrik Parsamyan

A simple metamaterial-based wide-angle plasmonic absorber is introduced, fabricated, and experimentally characterized using angle-resolved infrared spectroscopy. The metamaterials are prepared by nano-imprint lithography, an attractive…

We study graphene on a photonic crystal operating in the terahertz (THz) spectral range. We show that the absorption of graphene becomes a modulated function of frequency and can be enhanced by more than three times at specific frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Nuno M. R. Peres , Yuliy V. Bludov

An efficient reflective elastic metasurface with tunable focusing point is proposed. The metasurface is based on electric resonators embedded in a stretchable elastic substrate. The focal length is controlled by mean of the stretching…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yair Zárate , Ilya V. Shadrivov , David A. Powell