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This study presents a comparative numerical analysis of Gold (Au) and high-index semiconductor nanoparticles for refractive index sensing in the visible range. While Au nanoparticles demonstrate high sensitivity ($\approx 150$ nm per…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Bernat Frangi

The Lorentz transformations for the optical constants (electric permittivity, magnetic permeability and index of refraction) of moving media are considered.

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Qi Shen

We find a new set of exact solutions to Maxwell's equations in space--time varying materials, where the refractive index is constant, while the impedance exhibits effective motion, i.e. it is a function of $x-vt$. We find that waves…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Mingjie Li , S. A. R. Horsley

In this work we briefly review the studies of the optical constants of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and few layer black phosphorus, with particular emphasis to the complex dielectric function and refractive index.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Aaron M. Ross , Giuseppe M. Paternò , Stefano Dal Conte , Francesco Scotognella , Eugenio Cinquanta

We study the negative refractive index in cubic noncentrosymmetric superconductors. We consider the Maxwell equations under the Meissner effect, and magnetoelectric effect arising due to broken inversion symmetry. We derive dispersion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-19 Tomoya Hayata

Nowadays for measurement of refractive index of nanomaterials usually spectro-photometric and mechanical methods are used which are expensive and indirect. In this paper for measuring these parameters of zinc oxide nanomaterial with two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-05 Fatemeh Jamal , Fatemeh Ahmadi , Mohammad Khanzadeh , Saber Malekzadeh

We discuss the feasibility of negative refraction with reduced absorption in coherently driven atomic media. Coherent coupling of an electric and a magnetic dipole transition by laser fields induces magneto-electric cross-coupling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jürgen Kästel , Michael Fleischhauer , Susanne F. Yelin , Ronald L. Walsworth

This paper describes the spherical concave mirror method for measuring the index of refraction of transparent liquids. We derived the refractive index equation using Snell's law and the small-angle approximation. We also verified the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-01-22 Amitabh Joshi , Juan D. Serna

New propagation regimes for light arise from the ability to tune the dielectric permittivity to extremely low values. Here we demonstrate a universal approach based on the low linear permittivity values attained in the epsilon-near-zero…

The coherent reflectivity of a dense, relativistic, ultra-thin electron layer is derived analytically for an obliquely incident probe beam. Results are obtained by two-fold Lorentz transformation. For the analytical treatment, a plane…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hui-Chun Wu , Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn

We investigate, in the probe limit, the negative refraction in the generalized superconductors with the Born-Infeld electrodynamics. We observe that the system has a negative Depine-Lakhtakia index in the superconducting phase at small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-23 Jun Cheng , Qiyuan Pan , Hongwei Yu , Jiliang Jing

Metalenses have emerged as a powerful platform for compact wavefront engineering; however, their performance stability under refractive index fluctuations induced by environmental perturbations, such as temperature shifts, remains a…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-08 Dongyoung Lee , Jisoo Kyoung

Rigourous calculations of the imaging properties of metamaterials consisting of metal-coated semiconductor nanoparticles are presented. In particular, it is shown that under proper choice of geometric and materials parameters, arrays of…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-13 Vassilios Yannopapas

It has been shown that for left-handed metamaterials and generally for negative refraction media the refraction index cannot be entered unequivocally and cannot be considered as real, and especially as negative. This index for above…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-21 Michael V. Davidovich

Recently, artificially constructed metamaterials have become of considerable interest, as these materials can exhibit electromagnetic characteristics unlike any conventional materials. Artificial magnetism and negative refractive index are…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-09 D. R. Smith , J. B. Pendry , M. C. K. Wiltshire

With the development of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, methods have been proposed to precisely estimate the thickness, refractive index, and attenuation coefficient of a sample. In this article, we propose a new method to compute these…

We extended the refraction angle of the Eaton lens into arbitrary angles. The refractive index of the Eaton lens is not analytical and can be obtained by numerical calculations only except in the case of the retroreflector. We introduced an…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-20 Sang-Hoon Kim

Dynamically tunable terahertz (THz) photonics requires low-loss dielectric platforms with practical, continuous control of refractive index. Here we present a mechanically reconfigurable THz photonic material platform: a monolithic,…

The extraordinary properties of resonant four-wave mixing of backward waves in doped negative-index materials are investigated. The feasibility of independent engineering of negative refractive index and nonlinear optical response as well…

Two choices are possible for the refractive index of a linear, homogeneous, isotropic, active, dielectric material. Either of the choices is adequate for obtaining frequency-domain solutions for (i) scattering by slabs, spheres, and other…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Joseph B. Geddes , Tom G. Mackay