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Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials that gain their remarkable mechanical properties, such as negative Poisson's ratios, negative compressibility, phononic bandgaps, and topological phonon modes, from their structure rather…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-07 D. Zeb Rocklin , Shangnan Zhou , Kai Sun , Xiaoming Mao

Periodic structures are a type of metamaterial in which the physical properties depend not only on the details of the unit cell but also on how unit cells are arranged and interact with each other. In conventional engineering structures,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Sudesh Pathak , Gagan Dangi , Farhad Farzbod

Complex and interesting electromagnetic behavior can be found in spaces with non-flat topology. When considering the properties of an electromagnetic medium under an arbitrary coordinate transformation an alternative interpretation presents…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Schurig , J. B. Pendry , D. R. Smith

Metasurfaces are efficient and versatile electromagnetic structures that have already enabled the implementation of a wide range of microwave and photonic wave shaping applications. Despite the extensive research into metasurfaces, a…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-16 Mustafa Yücel , Francisco S. Cuesta , Karim Achouri

We study the time harmonic Maxwell equations in a meta-material consisting of perfect conductors and void space. The meta-material is assumed to be periodic with period $\eta > 0$; we study the behaviour of solutions $(E^{\eta}, H^{\eta})$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Ben Schweizer , Maik Urban

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are designed by periodically arranged subwavelength geometries, allowing a tailored manipulation of the electromagnetic response of matter. Here, we exploit temporal variations of permittivity inside…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

We study scattering by metamaterials with negative indices of refraction, which are known to support \emph{surface plasmons} -- long-lived states that are highly localized at the boundary of the cavity. This type of states has found uses in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Yan-Long Fang , Jeffrey Galkowski

We study time-harmonic Maxwell's equations in meta-materials that use either perfect conductors or high-contrast materials. Based on known effective equations for perfectly conducting inclusions, we calculate the transmission and reflection…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Mario Ohlberger , Ben Schweizer , Maik Urban , Barbara Verfürth

Periodic structures are a type of metamaterials in which their physical properties not only depend on the unit cell materials but also the way unit cells are arranged and interact with each other. Periodic structure have Interesting wave…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Farhad Farzbod , Onome E. Scott-Emuakpor

Quantifying the relationship between geometric descriptors of microstructure and effective properties like permeability is essential for understanding and improving the behavior of porous materials. In this paper, we employ a previously…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-27 Matthias Weber , Andreas Grießer , Dennis Mosbach , Erik Glatt , Andreas Wiegmann , Volker Schmidt

Magnetic metamaterials consist of magnetic resonators smaller in size than their excitation wavelengths. Their unique electromagnetic properties were characterized by the effective media theory at the early stage. However, the effective…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Liu , Y. M. Liu , T. Li , S. M. Wang , S. N. Zhu , X. Zhang

We demonstrate theoretically that electromagnetically induced transparency can be achieved in metamaterials, in which electromagnetic radiation is interacting resonantly with mesoscopic oscillators rather than with atoms. We describe novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-30 Ph. Tassin , Lei Zhang , Th. Koschny , E. N. Economou , C. M. Soukoulis

We investigate the effects of hydrodynamic nonlocal response in hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), focusing on the experimentally realizable parameter regime where unit cells are much smaller than an optical wavelength but much larger than…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-19 Wei Yan , N. Asger Mortensen , Martijn Wubs

We propose a novel approach for efficient tuning of the transmission characteristics of metamaterials through a continuous adjustment of the lattice structure, and confirm it experimentally in the microwave range. The concept is rather…

We consider the interaction between a particle beam and a propagating electromagnetic wave in the presence of a metamaterial. We show that the introduction of a metamaterial gives rise to a novel dispersion curve which determines a unique…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. S. Tan , R. Seviour

We consider the problem of bounding the effective nonreciprocal properties of metamaterials. Recently, significant progress was made by showing that this problem can be reduced to bounding an equivalent reciprocal one and applying a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Christian Kern , Graeme W. Milton

Hyperbolic metamaterials were initially proposed in optics to boost radiation efficiencies of quantum emitters. Adopting this concept for antenna design can allow approaching long-standing challenges in radio physics. For example, impedance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Ildar Yusupov , Dmitry Filonov , Tatyana Vosheva , Viktor Podolsky , Pavel Ginzburg

We investigate the effective properties (conductivity, diffusivity and elastic moduli) of model random composite media derived from Gaussian random fields and overlapping hollow spheres. The morphologies generated in the models exhibit low…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Anthony Roberts , Mark Knackstedt

This paper provides a general framework for deriving effective material properties of one-dimensional, time-modulated systems of subwavelength resonators. It applies to subwavelength resonator systems with a general form of time-dependent…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

We consider reflection of electromagnetic waves from layered structures with various dielectric and magnetic properties, including metamaterials. Assuming periodic variations in the permittivity, we find that the reflection is in general…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-11-21 G. Brodin , M. Marklund , L. Stenflo , P. K. Shukla