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Transmission through a subwavelength terahertz fiber, which is positioned in parallel to a frequency selective surface, is studied using several finite element tools. Both the band diagram technique and the port-based scattering matrix…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Martin Girard , Maksim Skorobogatiy

We report on the optical and physical characterization of metallic nanowire (NW) metamaterials fabricated by electrodeposition of ~30 nm diameter gold nanowires in nano-porous anodic aluminum oxide. We observe a uniaxial anisotropic…

Photonic metamaterials are man-made structures composed of tailored micro- or nanostructured metallo-dielectric sub-wavelength building blocks that are densely packed into an effective material. This deceptively simple, yet powerful, truly…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Costas M. Soukoulis , Martin Wegener

Epsilon-Near-Zero materials exhibit a transition in the real part of the dielectric permittivity from positive to negative value as a function of wavelength. Here we study metal-dielectric layered metamaterials in the homogenised regime…

Electromagnetic metamaterials provide unprecedented freedom and flexibility to introduce new devices, which control electromagnetic wave propagation in very unusual ways. Very recently theoretical design of an "invisibility cloak" has been…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. I. Smolyaninov , Y. J. Hung , C. C. Davis

General relations for the stored reactive field energy density in passive linear artificial microwave materials are established. These relations account for dispersion and absorption effects in these materials, and they are valid also in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Sergei Tretyakov

An emerging and promising vision of wireless networks consists of coating the environmental objects with reconfigurable metasurfaces that are capable of modifying the radio waves impinging upon them according to the generalized law of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 M. Di Renzo , J. Song

Motivated by our recent findings in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013902, 2022], which introduces a new class of electromagnetic bulk materials whose response is similar to conventional semiconductor transistors, here we propose a one-dimensional…

Millimeter-wave (30-300 GHz) and Terahertz-band communications (0.3-10 THz) are envisioned as key wireless technologies to satisfy the demand for Terabit-per-second (Tbps) links in the 5G and beyond eras. The very large available bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-18 Shuai Nie , Josep M. Jornet , Ian F. Akyildiz

Nonlinear frequency conversion unlocks technologies ranging from telecommunications to quantum computation; however, weak nonlinearities and architectures that resist miniaturization currently limit devices. Here, we combine a…

Reconfigurable metasurfaces are potent platforms to control the propagation properties of light dynamically. Among different reconfiguration mechanisms available at optical frequencies, using non-volatile phase change materials is one of…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-03 Luis Manuel Máñez-Espina , Ana Díaz-Rubio

Metamaterials are artificial structures with unusual and superior properties that come from their carefully designed building blocks -- also called meta-atoms. Metamaterials have permeated large swatches of science, including…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 André Souto , Jian Zhang , Alejandro M. Aragón , Krassimir Velikov , Corentin Coulais

Conjugate-impedance matched superabsorbers are metamaterial bodies whose effective absorption cross section greatly exceeds their physical dimension. Such objects are able to receive radiation when it is not directly incident on their…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-02 Stanislav I. Maslovski , Hugo R. L. Ferreira , Iurii O. Medvedev , Nuno G. B. Bras

We examine several ways to manipulate the loss in electromagnetic cloaks, based on transformation electromagnetics. It is found that, by utilizing inherent electric and magnetic losses of metamaterials, perfect wave absorption can be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christos Argyropoulos , Efthymios Kallos , Yan Zhao , Yang Hao

To date, the vast majority of architected materials have leveraged two physical principles to control wave behavior, namely Bragg interference and local resonances. Here, we describe a third path: structures that accommodate a finite number…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Aleksi Bossart , Romain Fleury

Superconducting properties of a material, such as electron-electron interactions and the critical temperature of superconducting transition can be expressed via the effective dielectric response function of the material. Such a description…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-01 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Vera N. Smolyaninova

Epsilon near zero (ENZ) materials can dramatically enhance local optical fields, enabling nonlinear interactions at relatively low intensities. Yet, near their plasma frequency, conventional isotropic ENZ media remain highly absorptive,…

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

The exotic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials and 2D heterostructures, built by forming heterogeneous multi-layered stacks, have been widely explored across a number of subject matters following the goal to invent, design, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Chandraman Patil , Hamed Dalir , Jin Ho Kang , Albert Davydov , Chee Wei Wong , Volker J. Sorger

Transmission of a normally incident plane wave through a metasurface with bicontrollable subwavelength scattering elements was simulated using a commercial software. Some pixels comprising the $H-shaped scattering elements were made of a…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Francesco Chiadini , Akhlesh Lakhtakia