Near-zero refractive index photonics

I Liberal, N Engheta - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Structures with near-zero parameters (for example, media with near-zero relative permittivity
and/or relative permeability, and thus a near-zero refractive index) exhibit a number of …

Epsilon‐near‐zero photonics: a new platform for integrated devices

X Niu, X Hu, S Chu, Q Gong - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) photonics is the study of light–matter interactions in the
presence of structures with near‐zero permittivity and has been emerging as an important …

Dirac cones induced by accidental degeneracy in photonic crystals and zero-refractive-index materials

X Huang, Y Lai, ZH Hang, H Zheng, CT Chan - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
A zero-refractive-index metamaterial is one in which waves do not experience any spatial
phase change, and such a peculiar material has many interesting wave-manipulating …

Digital metamaterials

C Della Giovampaola, N Engheta - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Balancing complexity and simplicity has played an important role in the development of
many fields in science and engineering. One of the well-known and powerful examples of …

Nanoscale conducting oxide PlasMOStor

HW Lee, G Papadakis, SP Burgos, K Chander… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We experimentally demonstrate an ultracompact PlasMOStor, a plasmon slot waveguide
field-effect modulator based on a transparent conducting oxide active region. By electrically …

First-principles homogenization theory for periodic metamaterials

A Alù - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2011 - APS
We derive from first principles an accurate homogenized description of periodic
metamaterials made of magnetodielectric inclusions, highlighting and overcoming relevant …

Real and imaginary properties of epsilon-near-zero materials

MH Javani, MI Stockman - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
From the fundamental principle of causality we show that epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials
with a very low (asymptotically zero) intrinsic dielectric loss do necessarily possess a very …

Extraordinary sound transmission through density-near-zero ultranarrow channels

R Fleury, A Alù - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We introduce the acoustic equivalent of “supercoupling” by studying the anomalous sound
transmission and uniform energy squeezing through ultranarrow acoustic channels filled …

Boosting optical nonlinearities in -near-zero plasmonic channels

C Argyropoulos, PY Chen, G D'Aguanno… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
The anomalous transmission properties of zero-permittivity ultranarrow channels are used to
boost Kerr nonlinearities and achieve switching and bistable response for moderate optical …

Microwave metalens antennas

ZN Chen, T Li, X Qing, J Shi, S Li, Y Su… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, there has been growing interest in the use of metamaterial (MTM)-based lenses,
also known as metalenses, as innovative antenna technology. Increasingly widespread …