Fundamental limits to the refractive index of transparent optical materials

H Shim, F Monticone, OD Miller - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the refractive index available for optical and nanophotonic systems opens new
vistas for design, for applications ranging from broadband metalenses to ultrathin …

Total external reflection from metamaterials with ultralow refractive index

BT Schwartz, R Piestun - JOSA B, 2003 - opg.optica.org
Metamaterials composed of metal-dielectric nanostructures are engineered to have an
effective refractive index less than unity at optical wavelengths. The effect of total external …

Meet the metamaterials

A Lakhtakia, TG Mackay - Optics and photonics news, 2007 - opg.optica.org
Among optics and electromagnetics researchers today, the term “metamaterials” is often
taken to be synonymous with materials that have a negative refractive index, but there is …

Replacing noble metals with alternative materials in plasmonics and metamaterials: how good an idea?

JB Khurgin - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Noble metals that currently dominate the fields of plasmonics and metamaterials suffer from
large ohmic losses. Some of the new plasmonic materials, such as doped oxides and …

All-dielectric metamaterials

S Jahani, Z Jacob - Nature nanotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Industrial developments in the field of optically transparent inorganic materials: A survey of recent patents

AR Boccaccini, DD Silva - Recent patents on materials science, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Continuous development of advanced technologies brings about the constant need for new
materials with suitable properties to even stricter demands. A special interest has been …

[图书][B] Optical materials and applications

M Wakaki - 2017 - books.google.com
The definition of optical material has expanded in recent years, largely because of IT
advances that have led to rapid growth in optoelectronics applications. Helping to explain …

Metamaterials: artificial materials beyond nature

S Zhu, X Zhang - National Science Review, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Research in advanced materials is continuously driving modern technologies forward. For
example, semiconductors have laid the foundation for today's electronics industry. While …

Expanding the photonic palette: exploring high index materials

JB Khurgin - Acs Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
While the photonic community is occupied with exotic concepts portending a grand future
and fame if not fortune, I respectfully entertain the possibility that a humble concept of simply …

Optical effective media with independent control of permittivity and permeability based on conductive particles

K Chung, R Kim, T Chang, J Shin - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We propose and prove that it is possible to decouple the electric and magnetic response of
an array of conductive nanoparticles and realize a very wide range of combinations of …