[HTML][HTML] From functional units to material design: A review on recent advancement of programmable microwire metacomposites

A Uddin, D Estevez, FX Qin - Composites Part A: Applied Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electromagnetic (EM) tunability of microwire metacomposites relies on topology, external
stimuli, and/or hybridization, which are burdensome and restricted to narrow frequency …

A hybrid invisibility cloak based on integration of transparent metasurfaces and zero-index materials

H Chu, Q Li, B Liu, J Luo, S Sun, ZH Hang… - Light: Science & …, 2018 - nature.com
The invisibility cloak, a long-standing fantastic dream for humans, has become more
tangible with the development of metamaterials. Recently, metasurface-based invisibility …

Hermitian and non-Hermitian Dirac-like cones in photonic and phononic structures

J Luo, Y Lai - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Accidental degeneracy plays an important role in the generation of novel band dispersions.
Photonic structures that exhibit an accidental Dirac-like conical dispersion at the center of …

Optical time reversal from time-dependent epsilon-near-zero media

S Vezzoli, V Bruno, C DeVault, T Roger, VM Shalaev… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Materials with a spatially uniform but temporally varying optical response have applications
ranging from magnetic field-free optical isolators to fundamental studies of quantum field …

Controlling coherent perfect absorption via long-range connectivity of defects in three-dimensional zero-index media

D Yan, R Mei, M Li, Z Ma, ZH Hang, J Luo - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
Coherent perfect absorption (CPA), as time-reversed lasing, arises from appropriate wave
interference within absorbers, offering flexible control over wave absorption. Typically, this …

Electromagnetic impurity-immunity induced by parity-time symmetry

J Luo, J Li, Y Lai - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Impurities usually play an important role in modifying the bulk properties of electronic or
electromagnetic materials. In this work, we demonstrate a way to break this discipline and …

Three-dimensional acoustic double-zero-index medium with a fourfold degenerate Dirac-like point

C Xu, G Ma, ZG Chen, J Luo, J Shi, Y Lai, Y Wu - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We report the first realization of a three-dimensional (3D) acoustic double-zero-index
medium (DZIM) made of a cubic lattice of metal rods. While the past decade has seen …

Coherent perfect absorption via photonic doping of zero‐index media

J Luo, B Liu, ZH Hang, Y Lai - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Coherent perfect absorption, as time‐reversed lasing, is achieved via appropriate
interference of waves in absorbers and provides attractive opportunities for flexible control of …

Three-dimensional electromagnetic void space

C Xu, H Chu, J Luo, ZH Hang, Y Wu, Y Lai - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Electromagnetic void space is a medium, while geometrically occupying a finite volume of
space, optically equivalent to an infinitesimal point, in which electromagnetic waves do not …

[HTML][HTML] Non-Hermitian electromagnetic double-near-zero index medium in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

C Xu, M Farhat, Y Wu - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report a general method to design a unique type of a non-Hermitian electromagnetic
double-near-zero index medium by a two-dimensional photonic crystal. The synergy of a …