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Here we apply the optical nanocircuit concepts to design and analyze in detail a three-dimensional (3-D) plasmonic nanotransmission line network that may act as a negative-refraction broadband metamaterial at infrared and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-04 Andrea Alu , Nader Engheta

Damping mechanical resonances is a formidable challenge in an increasing number of applications. Many of the passive damping methods rely on using low stiffness dissipative elements, complex mechanical structures or electrical systems,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-24 David M. J. Dykstra , Coen Lenting , Alexandre Masurier , Corentin Coulais

We present the design for an absorbing metamaterial element with near unity absorbance. Our structure consists of two metamaterial resonators that couple separately to electric and magnetic fields so as to absorb all incident radiation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. I. Landy , S. Sajuyigbe , J. J. Mock , D. R. Smith , W. J. Padilla

Extremely anisotropic metal-dielectric multilayer metamaterials are designed to have the effective permittivity tensor of a transverse component (parallel to the interfaces of the multilayer) with zero real part and a longitudinal component…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Lei Sun , Xiaodong Yang , Wei Wang , Jie Gao

In this Letter, we propose a new type of lossless metamaterial whose effective permittivity is tunable from negative to positive values. Its optical response is studied analytically and numerically. We further demonstrate that this tunable…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-07 Yong Zeng , Qi Wu , Douglas H. Werner

An earthquake-proof seismic negative belt of an artificial seismic shadow zone is introduced. The belt is composed of acoustic materials which has one of the constituent parameter between density and modulus is negative effectively. It…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Sang-Hoon Kim , Mukunda P. Das

In recent years, metamaterials have gained considerable attention as a promising material technology due to their unique properties and customizable design, distinguishing them from traditional materials. This article delves into the value…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Sichao Qu , Min Yang , Yunfei Xu , Songwen Xiao , Nicholas X. Fang

We consider layered heterostructures combining ordinary positive index materials and dispersive metamaterials. We show that these structures can exhibit a new type of photonic gap around frequencies where either the magnetic permeability…

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

Nonlinear intersubband polaritonic metasurfaces support one of the strongest known ultrafast nonlinear responses in the mid-infrared frequency range across all condensed matter systems. Beyond harmonic generation and frequency mixing, these…

Poorly transparent barriers (e.g., reinforced walls, shielding panels, metallic or high-contrast dielectrics) strongly reflect incident radiation, limiting wireless power transfer (WPT) unless the barrier is structurally modified to support…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-25 Alex Krasnok

We further miniaturize a recently established silver-based negative-index metamaterial design. By comparing transmittance, reflectance and phase-sensitive time-of-flight experiments to theory, we infer a real part of the refractive index of…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gunnar Dolling , Martin Wegener , Costas M. Soukoulis , Stefan Linden

We study theoretically and experimentally how to reduce the backscattering of water waves in a channel with multiple turns. We show that it is not only possible to cancel backscattering but also to achieve a remarkable transmission in such…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Samantha Kucher , Adrian Koźluk , Philippe Petitjeans , Agnès Maurel , Vincent Pagneux

In this work, we study the electrodynamics of metamaterials that consist of resonant non-magnetic inclusions embedded in an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) host medium. It is shown that the inclusions can be designed in such a way that both the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Mario Silveirinha , Nader Engheta

Vibration attenuation has played a crucial role in engineering structure, wherein metamaterials have found escalated usage. These structures can be cleverly built to be lightweight and have negative mass properties, which can attenuate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Arghya Mondal

This paper investigates the propagation characteristics of circular waveguides whose interior surface is coated with a thin metamaterial liner possessing dispersive, negative, and near-zero permittivity. A field analysis of this system…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-13 Justin G. Pollock , Ashwin K. Iyer

We develop an approach to use nanostructured plasmonic materials as a non-magnetic negative-refractive index system at optical and near-infrared frequencies. In contrast to conventional negative refraction materials, our design does not…

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

An experimentally realizable prototype nanophotonic circuit consisting of a receiving and an emitting nano antenna connected by a two-wire optical transmission line is studied using finite-difference time- and frequency-domain simulations.…

Optics · Physics 2012-07-09 Jer-Shing Huang , Thorsten Feichtner , Paolo Biagioni , Bert Hecht

We propose a type of elastic metamaterial comprising fluid-solid composite inclusions which can possess negative shear modulus and negative mass density over a large frequency region. Such a solid metamaterial has a unique elastic property…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-06 Ying Wu , Yun Lai , Zhao-Qing Zhang