Planar gradient metamaterials

Y Xu, Y Fu, H Chen - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Metamaterials possess exotic properties that do not exist in nature. Gradient metamaterials,
which are characterized by a continuous spatial variation of their properties, provide a …

Spoof localized surface plasmons for sensing applications

X Zhang, WY Cui, Y Lei, X Zheng… - Advanced materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Localized surface plasmons (LSPs) are localized oscillations of free electrons in metal
nanoparticles at optical frequencies. Confined mode profiles and near‐field enhancements …

Broadband vibration suppression of rainbow metamaterials with acoustic black hole

W Gao, Z Qin, F Chu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Acoustic black hole (ABH) structures have been widely utilized for vibration suppression
owing to its tailored indentations according to a power-law profile. Compared with single …

Implementation of dispersion-free slow acoustic wave propagation and phase engineering with helical-structured metamaterials

X Zhu, K Li, P Zhang, J Zhu, J Zhang, C Tian… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The ability to slow down wave propagation in materials has attracted significant research
interest. A successful solution will give rise to manageable enhanced wave–matter …

Topological rainbow concentrator based on synthetic dimension

C Lu, C Wang, M Xiao, ZQ Zhang, CT Chan - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Synthetic dimension provides a new platform for realizing topological photonic devices.
Here, we propose a method to realize a rainbow concentrator of topological photonic states …

Imaging-based intelligent spectrometer on a plasmonic rainbow chip

D Tua, R Liu, W Yang, L Zhou, H Song, L Ying… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Compact, lightweight, and on-chip spectrometers are required to develop portable and
handheld sensing and analysis applications. However, the performance of these …

Acoustic rainbow trapping

J Zhu, Y Chen, X Zhu, FJ Garcia-Vidal, X Yin… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Spatial modulation of sound velocity below the wavelength scale can introduce strong
frequency-dependent acoustic responses in tailored composite materials, regardless the fact …

Plasmonic analog of electromagnetically induced transparency in multi-nanoresonator-coupled waveguide systems

H Lu, X Liu, D Mao - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2012 - APS
We have theoretically and numerically investigated an analog of electromagnetically
induced transparency (EIT) in plasmonic systems consisting of multiple cascaded nanodisk …

Topological rainbow trapping and acoustic energy amplification in two-dimensional gradient phononic crystals

XL Tang, TX Ma, YS Wang - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we numerically and experimentally investigate topological rainbow trapping and
energy amplification of acoustic waves in a gradient phononic crystal (PC) structure. Thanks …

Tunable topological edge states and rainbow trapping in two dimensional magnetoelastic phononic crystal plates based on an external magnetostatic field

F Sui, J Chen, H Huang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The elastic analogs of topological insulators (TIs) have attracted substantial research
interest owing to their potential prospects in wave manipulation and low-loss transmission …