{"title":"Bound and leaky modes in PT-symmetric epsilon-near-zero metamaterial slabs","authors":"S. Savoia, Vincenzo Galdi","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948667","url":null,"abstract":"We show that a judicious combination of balanced gain and loss, inspired by parity-time symmetry concept, can be exploited in epsilon-near-zero metamaterials to support exponentially-localized bound modes that propagate without attenuation. We study the dispersion relationship of these modes for moderate levels of gain/loss, and the exponentially-localized bound modes that propagate without attenuation. We study the dispersion relationship of these modes for moderate levels of gain/loss, and their eventual transition to leaky modes below a gain/loss threshold. These waveguiding/radiation mechanisms may open up intriguing venues for novel nanophotonics platforms.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122784271","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":"Huygens source nanoparticle lasers and their applications","authors":"I. Liberal, R. Gonzalo, I. Ederra, R. Ziolkowski","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948583","url":null,"abstract":"An induction theorem-inspired approach is adopted for the design of a Huygens source nanoparticle laser. The proposed nanoparticle consists of a three-layer silicon-silver-silicon (Si-Ag-Si) concentric sphere, which enables the amplified and balanced excitation of the electric and magnetic dipole modes with scattering efficiencies in excess of 600. Moreover, with its dipolar modes designed to be in balance, its scattering directivity pattern is an almost perfect replica of the cardioid radiation pattern of a Huygens source, featuring Dscat = 3 in the forward direction and a null (Dscat ≃ 0) in the backward direction. Innovative electromagnetic force manipulation and trapping effects that are empowered with Huygens source nanoparticle lasers are considered.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116624427","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}
Y. Nishimura, S. Mori, T. Kawano, Y. Kunichika, K. Kasahara, T. Yaji, N. Ikeda, H. Oosato, Y. Sugimoto
{"title":"Electric field distribution perpendicular to the surface of mid-infrared antennas","authors":"Y. Nishimura, S. Mori, T. Kawano, Y. Kunichika, K. Kasahara, T. Yaji, N. Ikeda, H. Oosato, Y. Sugimoto","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948630","url":null,"abstract":"The electric field in the normal direction was experimentally investigated by using mid-infrared antennas that were formed on a thin Al2O3 layer/Si substrate. The Al2O3 layer could be as thin as a single nm-order employing the atomic layer deposition, and was varied from 2 nm to 50 nm. The field distribution was estimated by observing the reflectivity change. It was found that the electric field decreased rapidly until a 6 nm depth from the antenna plane, and that the degree of attenuation became relaxed in the deeper region.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117112720","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":"Phase modulation by external magnetic field in plasmonic crystals","authors":"A. Kalish, V. Belotelov, A. K. Zvezdin","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948627","url":null,"abstract":"The magneto-optical phase effects of a hybrid metal-dielectric structure are studied theoretically. An applied magnetic field alters the phase of transmitted and reflected waves. The effect demonstrates resonant behavior at the excitation of plasmonic eigenmodes in the transverse configuration. The conditions for the resonant enhancement of the effect are found.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116740231","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}
P. Kozioł, A. Antończak, M. Walczakowski, N. Pałka, K. Abramski
{"title":"THz structures fabricated in laser direct patterning","authors":"P. Kozioł, A. Antończak, M. Walczakowski, N. Pałka, K. Abramski","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948562","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper two different methods of the manufacture of metamaterial structures using a laser treatment were presented. One of them is related to direct metallization of the surface of aluminum nitride ceramics (AlN) by interaction of laser radiation. The second method involves a process of selective removal of the conductive layer (silver) in the laser ablation process. It has been proved that both proposed methods allow to produce a structure of SRR type showing its properties in THz range. Obtained results allow to implement these methods for the manufacture of more complex structures. An advantage of the process of laser radiation interaction on the surface of a material is the ability to produce any shape without having to adapt further process components.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123577034","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}
M. Otomori, T. Yamada, J. Andkjær, K. Izui, S. Nishiwaki, N. Kogiso
{"title":"Topology optimization of an electromagnetic cloak using a ferrite material","authors":"M. Otomori, T. Yamada, J. Andkjær, K. Izui, S. Nishiwaki, N. Kogiso","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948572","url":null,"abstract":"This paper numerically demonstrates that a systematic design approach based on topology optimization can be applied to find the layout of a ferrite material that functions as an electromagnetic cloak with a relatively small cloaking region. The numerical results indicate that the frequency-dependent aspect of a ferrite material's permeability may enable cloak designs with novel functions, such as on-off operation in response to on-off application of an external magnetic field.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124662084","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":"Effective dynamic susceptibility of a one-dimensional array of ferromagnetic wires","authors":"R. Zivieri","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948541","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the calculation of the effective dynamic susceptibility for a one-dimensional array of permalloy rectangular nanowires periodic along the in-plane x direction is presented. The external magnetic field is assumed aligned along the long side of the wires (y direction) and the in-plane Bloch wave vector is along the wires width (x direction). The calculation is performed by means of a finite-difference micromagnetic approach, the Lagrangian-based dynamical matrix method. It is shown that the excited spin-wave mode is always the quasi-uniform or fundamental mode of the spectrum. This spin excitation has a non-uniform amplitude along the wire width due to confinement with no nodal planes and can be regarded as the metamaterial wave of the one-dimensional periodic system.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"7 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129867362","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}
G. Hanson, M. Silveirinha, P. Burghignoli, A. Yakovlev
{"title":"Non-local susceptibility for a bounded homogenized wire medium in the spatial domain","authors":"G. Hanson, M. Silveirinha, P. Burghignoli, A. Yakovlev","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948538","url":null,"abstract":"Here, we present different formulations for wave interaction problems of bounded homogenized wire media in the spatial domain. We demonstrate that two previous methods based on the wave expansion and transport equation are equivalent to each other, and to a charge carrier model involving particle reflection at the boundary. The role of a virtual interface is discussed, and it is found to be analogous to that for natural excitonic materials. An important observation is that the non-local susceptibility x(r, r') for a non-translationally invariant homogenized wire medium is represented by a Green's function in the spatial domain subject to boundary conditions at the material boundaries.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130939893","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":"Absorption and reflection characteristics of a circular disk with gridded-square loop-loaded FSS structure for X-band operations","authors":"S. Can, A. Egemen Yilmaz","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948546","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the absorption and reflection characteristics of a circular disk with gridded-square loop-loaded Frequency Selective Surface (FSS). The paper demonstrates the parameters affecting the absorption and reflection characteristics, and additionally performs the parametric analysis of the proposed structure. The parametric performance is investigated in two aspects: the former being the geometry, and the latter being the material properties. The proposed structure achieves to absorb the electromagnetic waves between 8 and 13GHz; therefore, that structure is available for use in X-band applications to make an invisible surface for the aforementioned band. Moreover, tunability of the frequency is stressed via varying the parameters in light of the parametric analysis in this study.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126395924","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":"Quantum plasmonics in graphene nano-flakes: A time-dependent density functional theory study","authors":"Wei Wu, N. Panoiu","doi":"10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METAMATERIALS.2014.6948679","url":null,"abstract":"The optical spectra for a variety of single and coupled graphene nano-flakes have been studied using time-dependent density functional theory within generalized gradient approximation. The time evolution of the charge density induced by a continuous-wave electrical field excitation has been calculated as well, in order to investigate the plasmonic properties of these graphene nano-structures. For the small graphene nano-flakes (diameter ~1nm), the edge plasmons are dominant, whereas for larger ones (diameter ~2nm) the edge plasmons are accompanied by multipolar collective charge oscillations, a typical characteristics for surface plasmons. This study might be used to guide the experimental observation of quantum plasmons in graphene nano-structures.","PeriodicalId":151955,"journal":{"name":"2014 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126602513","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}