R. Starko-Bowes, J. Atkinson, W. Newman, H. Hu, E. Kallos, G. Palikaras, R. Fedosejevs, S. Pramanik, Z. Jacob
{"title":"Optical characterization of epsilon-near-zero & epsilon-near-pole resonances of gold nanorod arrays","authors":"R. Starko-Bowes, J. Atkinson, W. Newman, H. Hu, E. Kallos, G. Palikaras, R. Fedosejevs, S. Pramanik, Z. Jacob","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342547","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the optical characterization of metallic nanowire (NW) metamaterials. In contrast to multilayer metamaterials, nanowire metamaterials exhibit an omnidirectional epsilon-near pole (ENP) and an angularly dependent epsilon-near-zero (ENZ), which are both highly absorptive resonances. We also demonstrate large tunability of the epsilon-near-zero resonance in the visible spectrum from 583 nm to 805 nm as the gold nanorod fill fraction changes from 26% to 10.5%. Energy dispersive x-ray (EDX) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analyses are used to ascertain the quality of electrochemically deposited Au nanowires prior to and after annealing.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114838109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of substrate on broadband microwave absorption of metamaterial absorbers composed of multi-scaled split cut wires","authors":"Joon-Hee Lim, Yo-Han Ryu, Sung‐Soo Kim","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342552","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-band or broadband power absorption has been obtained from multiple arrangements of split cut wires (SCWs) of different length on grounded dielectric substrate. Computational tools were used to model the interaction between electromagnetic waves and materials with the SCWs structure. The multi-resonance of SCWs is found to be greatly dependent on substrate materials (FR4, air). Insertion of an air layer at the bottom side of the ground plane has the effect of broadening the absorption band, due to the effect of increasing the dielectric resistance by increasing substrate thickness and by decreasing effective permittivity. For the multi-resonance structure of 13 SCWs, a broad bandwidth (6.3-7.6 GHz with respect to 80% absorbance) is predicted. The simulation result is in good agreement with experimental result measured by free space method.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123891002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subwavelength grating waveguide design rules for integrated photonics","authors":"H. Nikkhah, T. Hall","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342487","url":null,"abstract":"A recent break-through in the domain of photonic integration is the use of sub-wavelength waveguide grating structures to engineer the refractive index of integrated components. These structures are an example of a case where a nanoscale simulation over the full device is not reliable and reliance must be placed on a simple design procedure. This paper reports a study of the homogenisation of sub-wavelength waveguide grating structures. It is shown how the properties these waveguides may be accurately modelled using simple design rules. A justification for these rules is found from the exact theory by a judicious choice of approximations. The temporal and spatial dispersive properties of the subwavelength grating waveguide are also evidenced.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122109728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. N. Kuz’michev, D. Ignatyeva, A. Kalish, V. Belotelov
{"title":"Magneto-optical effects in plasmonic slot waveguides","authors":"A. N. Kuz’michev, D. Ignatyeva, A. Kalish, V. Belotelov","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342558","url":null,"abstract":"We studied two optical modes of the gyrotropic slot waveguide consisted of a magnetic dielectric sandwiched between to different metal walls. Different types of modes are identified including backward anti-symmetric plasmonic mode that has opposite direction of the phase and group velocities. Effect of the magneto-optical nonreciprocity in a transversal magnetic field is revealed and its pecularities for the backward mode are studied.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116435808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Ignatyeva, P. Kapralov, G. Knyazev, A. Kalish, A. Fraerman, S. Sekatskii, V. Belotelov
{"title":"Magnetooptical surface plasmon resonance sensor based on dielectric Bragg mirror with metal cover","authors":"D. Ignatyeva, P. Kapralov, G. Knyazev, A. Kalish, A. Fraerman, S. Sekatskii, V. Belotelov","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342546","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel type of the surface plasmon resonance sensor that is based on the magnetophotonic plasmonic heterostructure. The sensitivity of such sensor is enhanced by several orders of magnitude due to the excitation of the ultralong-range propagating surface plasmon polaritons in specially designed 1D photonic crystal coated with a magnetic layer. The sensing process was experimentally demonstrated for different concentrations of ethanol vapors in air.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133500851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Min Yang, Guancong Ma, Songwen Xiao, Zhiyu Yang, P. Sheng
{"title":"Hybrid resonance and the total absorption of low frequency acoustic waves","authors":"Min Yang, Guancong Ma, Songwen Xiao, Zhiyu Yang, P. Sheng","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342498","url":null,"abstract":"By creating two or more resonances on a structured thin membrane, it can be shown that a reflecting surface placed close by can cause the two neighboring resonances to hybridize at a frequency intermediate between the two. As the hybrid resonance's wave amplitude profile is necessarily the linear superposition of the two original resonant eigenfunctions, the two degrees of freedom can mean that the surface-averaged hybrid resonance amplitude, and its variance, may be separately tunable. It is shown that whereas the average amplitude can serve to match impedance with air, the variance component is “deaf” and serves to absorb the incoming wave energy. The result is a deeply subwavelength structure that can totally absorb the incident wave at tunable frequencies.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133925767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Cuerda, Felix Ruting, F. García-Vidal, J. Bravo-Abad
{"title":"Lasing action in active plasmonic structures","authors":"J. Cuerda, Felix Ruting, F. García-Vidal, J. Bravo-Abad","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342449","url":null,"abstract":"We present our recent advances in nanoscale lasing action enabled by plasmonic resonances. First, we study lasing action in plasmonic crystals incorporating optically pumped four-level gain media. We show that the excitation of dark plasmonic resonances (via the gain medium) enables accessing the optimal lasing characteristics of this class of systems. Second, we analyze the conditions for the emergence of self-sustained laser oscillations in an optically-pumped long-range surface-plasmon structure that includes plasmonic Bragg mirrors as optical feedback mechanism.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131302002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confining light with superlocalized plasmon resonances","authors":"M. Gorkunov, B. Sturman, E. Podivilov","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342529","url":null,"abstract":"We study plasmonic properties of metal nanoparticles with sharp corner- and tip-shaped surface perturbations supporting plasmon resonances superlocalized on the scale of the curvature radius. We reveal the conditions for employing such particles as nano-antennas that precisely couple the free-space light to the nanosize volumes near the perturbation apexes with the light fields enhanced by several orders of magnitudes.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"43 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133198805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of resonant processes in plasmonic metasurfaces for SPR sensing","authors":"J. Lelek, P. Kwiecien, J. Fiala, I. Richter","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342598","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate selected periodic arrays of nanostructures inspired by metasurfaces and evaluate their potential for surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect used in sensor applications. Building blocks with various shapes were arranged on suitable substrates and their reflection, transmission, and loss energy spectra were calculated. The numerical studies were performed using our proprietary in-house efficient two-dimensional rigorous coupled-wave analysis technique. Using the calculated spectra, we investigated spectral sensitivities of SPR and calculated the respective SPR sensor characteristics, such as figures of merit (FOM), enabling direct comparison of various structural morphologies for potential sensing applications. Comparing various metasurface structures in terms of FOM has allowed identification of the promising candidates.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132840173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All cloaks are spacetime cloaks","authors":"Robert T. Thompson","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2015.7342502","url":null,"abstract":"Most invisibility cloaks designed with the transformation optics approach have used purely spatial transformations. When viewed from a 4-dimensional perspective it becomes obvious that purely spatial cloak transformations introduce unwanted effects such as space-like trajectories of light. By considering time transformations in conjunctions with spatial transformations, it may be possible to mitigate these unwanted effects. This demonstrates the importance of 4-dimensional thinking for transformation optics.","PeriodicalId":143626,"journal":{"name":"2015 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS)","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124675244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}