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We propose a polarization modulation scheme of electromagnetic (EM) waves through reflection of a tunable metamaterial reflector/absorber. By constructing the metamaterial with resonant unit cells coupled by diodes, we demonstrate that the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bo Zhu , Yijun Feng Junming Zhao , Ci Huang , Zhengbin Wang , Tian Jiang

Increasing attention on microwave ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers has been paid due to their promising applications. While most microwave ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers developed so far are based on metallic resonant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Jingda Wen , Qiang Ren , Ruiguang Peng , Haoyang Yao , Yuchang Qing , Jianbo Yin , Qian Zhao

We demonstrate thin-film metamaterials with resonances in the mid-infrared wavelength range. Our structures are numerically modeled and experimentally characterized by reflection and angularly-resolved thermal emission spectroscopy. We…

Optics · Physics 2011-08-18 J. A. Mason , S. Smith , D. Wasserman

Absorption of electromagnetic energy by a dissipative material is one of the most fundamental electromagnetic processes that underlies a plethora of applied problems, including sensing and molecular detection, radar detection, wireless…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-31 Alexey Proskurin , Andrey Bogdanov , Denis G. Baranov

We demonstrate that the metamaterial perfect absorber behaves as a meta-cavity bounded between a resonant metasurface and a metallic thin-film reflector. The perfect absorption is achieved by the Fabry-Perot cavity resonance via multiple…

Electro-momentum coupling in piezoelectric metamaterials with broken inversion symmetry enables asymmetric elastic wave transport by linking macroscopic electric fields to momentum, an effect analogous to Willis coupling in elastic media. A…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Hrishikesh Danawe , Serife Tol

Despite the apparent simplicity, the problem of refraction of electromagnetic waves at the planar interface between two media has an incredibly rich spectrum of unusual phenomena. An example is the paradox that occurs when an…

Absorption of electromagnetic energy by a material is a phenomenon that underlies many applied problems, including molecular sensing, photocurrent generation and photodetection. Commonly, the incident energy is delivered to the system…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-11 Denis G. Baranov , Alex Krasnok , Timur Shegai , Andrea Alù , Y. D. Chong

We analyze surface electromagnetic waves with hyperbolic dispersion supported at the interface between a semi-infinite isotropic medium and an effective uniaxial material. Apart from known types plasmons with hyperbolic dispersion curve,…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-04 Osamu Takayama , Andrei V. Lavrinenko

We investigate the reflection and refraction behaviors of electromagnetic waves at the interface between an isotropic material and the anisotropic medium with a unique dispersion relation. We show that the refraction angle of whether phase…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Weixing Shu , Hailu Luo , Fei Li , Zhongzhou Ren

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…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Aleksander O. Makarenko , Maxim A. Yurkin , Alexey A. Shcherbakov , Mikhail Lapine

We show that meta-antennas made of a composite material displaying type II hyperbolic dispersion enable precise and controlled spectral separation of absorption and scattering processes in the visible/near-infrared frequency range. The…

Controlling the electromagnetic properties of materials beyond those achievable with natural substances has become a reality with the advent of metamaterials, artificially designed materials offering a wide range of unusual physical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Esmaeel Zanganeh , Polina Kapitanova , Andrey Sayanskiy , Sergey Kosulnikov , Alex Krasnok

We investigate the wave propagation in the anisotropic metamaterial with single-sheeted hyperboloid dispersion relation. Based on boundary conditions and dispersion relations, we find that the opposite amphoteric refraction, such that E-…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hailu Luo , Zhongzhou Ren , Weixing Shu , Fei Li

A possible means of optical sensing, based on a porous hyperbolic material which is infiltrated by a fluid containing an analyte to be sensed, was investigated theoretically. The sensing mechanism relies on the observation that…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Tom G. Mackay

Following our recent theoretical and experimental results that show how zero-permittivity metamaterials may provide anomalous tunneling and energy squeezing through ultranarrow waveguide channels, here we report an experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian Edwards , Andrea Alu , Mario G. Silveirinha , Nader Engheta

We examine layered metamaterial structures consisting of alternating films of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) and dielectric material, and show that for such a stack it is possible to enhance the refractive, reflective or absorptive properties of…

Using the idea of transformation optics, we propose a metamaterial device that serves as a frequency-selective super-absorber, which consists of an absorbing core material coated with a shell of isotropic double negative metamaterial. For a…

Optics · Physics 2009-02-26 Jack Ng , Huanyang Chen , C. T. Chan

We report on experiments of perfect absorption for surface gravity waves impinging a wall structured by a subwavelength resonator. By tuning the geometry of the resonator, a balance is achieved between the radiation damping and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-30 Eduardo Monsalve , Agnes Maurel , Philippe Petitjeans , Vincent Pagneux

The interaction of free electrons with electromagnetic excitation is the fundamental mechanism responsible for ultra-strong confinement of light that, in turn, enables biosensing, near-field microscopy, optical cloaking, sub-wavelength…