Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) is a powerful technique for the characterization of materials,
which is able to probe in a sensitive way their nanostructure as well as to get rich information …

Negative index metamaterials have revolutionized the field of photonics because of their
unconventional electromagnetic properties absent in naturally occurring materials. It …

Hyperbolic metamaterials are optical materials characterized by highly anisotropic effective
permittivity tensor components having opposite signs along orthogonal directions. The …

Transparent heat mirrors are spectrally selective coatings that transmit light and reflect heat
in the form of infrared radiation. In this work, these coatings were achieved by depositing a …

Fractals are promising candidates as nonperiodic, nonresonant structures exhibiting a
homogeneous, isotropic, and frequency-independent effective optical response. We present …

Understanding gyrotropic effects in the mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range is of high
technological interest because it is the fingerprint region of many metamaterials and organic …

We report on measurements of optical activity in reflection in the conical mount from two
plasmonically resonant nanostructures; a sub-wavelength silver meshed grid and a fishnet …

Spectroscopic ellipsometry is demonstrated to be an effective technique for assessing the
quality of plasmonic resonances within aluminum nanostructures deposited with multiple …

In the present article we discuss developments towards increasing the spatial resolution of
infrared ellipsometry and ellipsometric microscopy for the study of thin films. Relevant …

For approximately a decade, imaging ellipsometers have been available commercially.
These allow one to measure the properties of graphene flakes, organic layers on …