Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M Xiao - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

Broadband metamaterial absorbers

P Yu, LV Besteiro, Y Huang, J Wu, L Fu… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The recent rise of metamaterials opens new opportunities for absorbers due to their
designed electrodynamic properties and effects, allowing the creation of materials with …

Physics-informed neural networks for inverse problems in nano-optics and metamaterials

Y Chen, L Lu, GE Karniadakis, L Dal Negro - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we employ the emerging paradigm of physics-informed neural networks
(PINNs) for the solution of representative inverse scattering problems in photonic …

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 …

Ceramic‐based dielectric metamaterials

W Luo, S Yan, J Zhou - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dielectric metamaterials based on ceramics have attracted considerable interest in the past
few years owing to their low dielectric loss, simple structure, excellent multifield tunability …

Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials

Y Li, CT Chan, E Mazur - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Metamaterials with a Dirac-like cone dispersion at the center of the Brillouin zone behave
like an isotropic and impedance-matched zero refractive index material at the Dirac-point …

On-chip zero-index metamaterials

Y Li, S Kita, P Muñoz, O Reshef, DI Vulis, M Yin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Metamaterials with a refractive index of zero exhibit physical properties such as infinite
phase velocity and wavelength. However, there is no way to implement these materials on a …

Realization of an all-dielectric zero-index optical metamaterial

P Moitra, Y Yang, Z Anderson, II Kravchenko… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Metamaterials offer unprecedented flexibility for manipulating the optical properties of
matter, including the ability to access negative index,,,, ultrahigh index and chiral optical …

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 …