Usually, investigators in materials science have asked:“What properties does a certain new
material or structure have?” Now, the inverse problem arises:“I want to achieve certain …

Manipulating the Near Field With Metamaterials Page 1 Manipulating the Near Field With
Metamaterials John Pendry Page 2 September 2004 ■ Optics & Photonics News 33 The near …

So far, the field of metamaterials has largely dealt with negative refractive indices in optics
and invisibility cloaks (–). However, the underlying idea of designing material properties is …

In the late nineteenth century, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that the electromagnetic
properties of materials are intimately related to their structure at the subwavelength scale by …

The ideal material for nanophotonic applications will have a large refractive index at optical
frequencies, respond to both the electric and magnetic fields of light, support large optical …

Artificially engineered metamaterials are now demonstrating unprecedented
electromagnetic properties that cannot be obtained with naturally occurring materials. In …

An optical metamaterial is a composite in which subwavelength features, rather than the
constituent materials, control the macroscopic electromagnetic properties of the material …

Metamaterials are artificial media structured on a size scale smaller than the wavelength of
external stimuli. Whereas conventional materials derive their electromagnetic characteristics …

Optical metamaterials have redefined how we understand light in notable ways: from strong
response to optical magnetic fields, negative refraction, fast and slow light propagation in …

The field of metamaterials has opened landscapes of possibilities in basic science, and a
paradigm shift in the way we think about and design emergent material properties. In many …