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We study the dispersion of electromagnetic waves in a spatially dispersive metamaterial with Lorentz-like dependence of principal permittivity tensor components on the respective components of the wave vector performing the analysis of…

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Concealing objects by making them invisible to an external electromagnetic probe is coined by the term cloaking. Cloaking devices, having numerous potential applications, are still face challenges in realization, especially in the visible…

We demonstrate, for the first time, an all-dielectric metamaterial resonator in the mid-wave infrared based on high-index tellurium cubic inclusions. Dielectric resonators are desirable compared to conventional metallo-dielectric…

The interaction between electromagnetic waves and objects is strongly affected by the shape and material composition of the latter. Artificially created materials, formed by a subwavelength structuring of their unit cells, namely…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Dmitry Filonov , Andrey Shmidt , Amir Boag , Pavel Ginzburg

Recent advances in hyperbolic metamaterials have spurred many breakthroughs in the field of manipulating light propagation. However, the unusual electromagnetic properties also put extremely high demands on its compositional materials.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Li-Zheng Yin , Feng-Yuan Han , Jin Zhao , Di Wang , Tie-Jun Huang , Pu-Kun Liu

A material comprised of an array of subwavelength coaxial waveguides decomposes incident electromagnetic waves into spatially discrete wave components, propagates these components without frequency cut-off, and reassembles them on the far…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Kempa , X. Wang , Z. F. Ren , M. J. Naughton

Engineering plasmonic metamaterials with anisotropic optical dispersion enables us to tailor the properties of metamaterial-based waveguides. We investigate plasmonic waveguides with dielectric cores and multilayer metal-dielectric…

We investigate a class of multilayered metamaterials characterized by moderate-index inclusions and low average permittivity. Via first-principle calculations, we show that in such scenario first- and second-order spatial dispersion effects…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-30 Carlo Rizza , Vincenzo Galdi , Alessandro Ciattoni

Although negative-refractive-index metamaterials have successfully achieved subwavelength focusing, image resolution is limited by the presence of losses. In this Letter, a metal transmission screen with subwavelength spaced slots is…

Optics · Physics 2008-09-25 Loic Markley , Alex M. H. Wong , Yan Wang , George V. Eleftheriades

We propose and numerically demonstrate a technique for subwavelength imaging based on a metal-dielectric multilayer hyperlens designed in such a way that only the large-wavevector waves are transmitted while all propagating waves from the…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Taavi Repän , Andrei V. Lavrinenko , Sergei V. Zhukovsky

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

We show that anisotropic negative effective dispersion relation can be achieved in pure dielectric rod-type metamaterials by turning from the symmetry of a square lattice to that of a rectangular one, i.e. by breaking the rotation symmetry…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-18 Liang Peng , Lixin Ran , Niels Asger Mortensen

We theoretically demonstrate a non-hermitian metamaterial exhibiting broadband and wide-angle nonreciprocity. The metamaterial consists of planar metal-dielectric layers with a Parity-Time (PT) symmetric distrubtion of loss and gain. With…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-07 David Barton , Mark Lawrence , Hadiseh Alaeian , Jennifer Dionne

We theoretically study the propagation of large-wavevector waves (volume plasmon polaritons) in multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials with two levels of structuring. We show that when the parameters of a subwavelength metal-dielectric…

We theoretically demonstrate the strong Purcell effect in $\varepsilon$-near-zero ultra-anisotropic uniaxial metamaterials with elliptic isofrequency surface. Contrary to the hyperbolic metamaterials, the effect does not rely on the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. V. Chebykin , A. A. Orlov , A. S. Shalin , A. N. Poddubny , P. A. Belov

Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique properties via the large deformation of their components. While their static character has been studied extensively, the study of their dynamic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Bolei Deng , Jordan R. Raney , Katia Bertoldi , Vincent Tournat

The paper develops a new integral micromorphic elastic continuum model, which can describe dispersion properties of band-gap metamaterials, i.e., metamaterials that inhibit propagation of waves in a certain frequency range. The enrichment…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Michal Šmejkal , Milan Jirásek , Martin Horák

Metamaterials-or artificial electromagnetic materials-can create media with properties unattainable in nature, but mitigating dissipation is a key challenge for their further development. Here, we demonstrate a low-loss metamaterial by…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-02 Aditya Jain , Philippe Tassin , Thomas Koschny , Costas M. Soukoulis

The concept of the broadband epsilon-near-zero meta-atom consisting of layered stacks with specified metallic filling ratio and thickness is proposed based on the Bergman spectral representation of the effective permittivity. The step-like…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lei Sun , Jie Gao , Xiaodong Yang

We investigate light propagation through materials with periodically modulated gain/loss profile in both transverse and longitudinal directions, i.e. in material with two-dimensional modulation in space. We predict effects of…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-27 K. Staliunas , R. Herrero , R. Vilaseca