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We study numerically, by means of the pseudospectral time-domain method, the unique features of imaging by a flat lens made of a left-handed metamaterial that possesses the property of negative refraction. We confirm the earlier finding…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael W. Feise , Yuri S. Kivshar

In this paper we study the dynamics of metamaterials composed of high-contrast subwavelength resonators and show the existence of localised modes in such a setting. A crucial assumption in this paper is time-modulated material parameters.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

Nanostructures with one-dimensional periodicity, such as multilayered structures, are currently in the focus of active research in the context of hyperbolic metamaterials and photonic topological structures. An efficient way to describe the…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-26 Maxim A. Gorlach , Mikhail Lapine

We derive an approach to define the causal direction of the wavevector of modes in optical metamaterials, which in turn, determines signs of refractive index and impedance as a function of {\it real and imaginary} parts of dielectric…

We study beam transmission and refection resulting from the resonant excitation of forward and backward surface waves in a metamaterial. We predict that exciting these waves at an interface this medium and free space led to transmitted and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-02-15 Ali Isa

We demonstrate a controllable electromagnetic wave reflector/absorber for different polarizations with metamaterial involving electromagnetic resonant structures coupled with diodes. Through biasing at different voltages to turn ON and OFF…

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

Realizing continuous sweeping of perfect anomalous reflection in a wide angular range has become a technical challenge. This challenge cannot be overcome by the conventional aperiodic reflectarrays and periodic metasurfaces or metagratings.…

Stealthy hyperuniform heterostructures are a novel type of metamaterial with the potential for optical image processing at angles away from normal incidence. These metamaterials show analogous properties to photonic crystals while…

Aiming at the promising superlensing for the medical ultrasonic and detection, the double-negative metamaterials which possess the negative mass density and elastic modulus simultaneously can be acted as the ideal superlens for breaking the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-09 Hao-Wen Dong , Sheng-Dong Zhao , Yue-Sheng Wang , Chuanzeng Zhang

We present a new technique for the design of transformation-optics devices based on large-scale optimization to achieve the optimal effective isotropic dielectric materials within prescribed index bounds, which is computationally cheap…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-11 David Liu , Lucas H. Gabrielli , Michal Lipson , Steven G. Johnson

In this paper, we propose an approach for describing wave propagation in finite-size microstructured metamaterials using a reduced relaxed micromorphic model. This method introduces an additional kinematic field with respect to the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Plastiras Demetriou , Gianluca Rizzi , Angela Madeo

We propose and theoretically demonstrate nonreciprocal negative refraction enabled by time-varying photonic structures. By engineering temporal modulations at the interfaces of hyperbolic media, we achieve isolation between forward and…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Mohammad R. Tavakol , Wenshan Cai

Introducing an axis of reflectional symmetry in a quasicrystal leads to the creation of localised edge modes that can be used to build waveguides. We develop theory that characterises reflection-induced localised modes in materials that are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Bryn Davies , Richard V Craster

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that manipulate electromagnetic waves, having optical properties absent in natural materials. Recently, machine learning for the inverse design of metamaterials has drawn attention.…

A new mechanism of Bragg reflection is identified, one that, remarkably, occurs in a uniform medium and relies on resonant tuning of the medium's parameters. Due to uniformity, reflection ensues over a broad wavelength range, much like a…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-22 Martin W. McCall , Stefanos Fr. Koufidis

A wedge-shaped structure made of split-ring resonators (SRR) and wires is numerically simulated to evaluate its refraction behavior. Four frequency bands, namely, the stop band, left-handed band, ultralow-index band, and positive-index…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. G. Dong , S. N. Zhu , H. Liu , J. Zhu , W. Cao

We theoretically formulate and experimentally demonstrate an analytical formalism for the design of printed circuit board (PCB) metagratings (MGs) exercising individual control over the amplitude and phase of numerous diffracted modes, in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Oshri Rabinovich , Ariel Epstein

We analyze the use of layered superconductors as anisotropic metamaterials. Layered superconductors can have a negative refraction index in a wide frequency range for arbitrary incident angles. Indeed, low-Tc (s-wave) superconductors allow…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 A. L. Rakhmanov , V. A. Yampol'skii , J. A. Fan , Federico Capasso , Franco Nori

Hyperbolic Metamaterials, as a non-magnetic anisotropic artificial structure, show metal properties in one direction and dielectric behavior in orthogonal directions. The proposed hyperbolic metamaterial filter in this project is designed…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Golsa Mirbagheri , David T. Crouse

As opposed to metasurfaces, metagratings represent themselves sparse arrangements of scatterers. Established rigorous analytical models allow metagratings to overcome performance of metasurfaces in beam steering applications while handling…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Vladislav Popov , Fabrice Boust , Shah Nawaz Burokur