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Negative refraction

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Optothermal shaping of lamb waves with square and spiral phase fronts

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We introduce a Lamb-wave medium with tunable propagation velocities, which are controlled by a two-dimensional heating pattern produced by a laser beam. We utilized it to demonstrate that waves in an appropriately designed medium can propagate in the form ...

2024

In-series sample methodology for permeability characterization demonstrated on carbon nanotube-grafted alumina textiles

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar, Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal

In-plane permeability of small area (100 × 50 mm) alumina fiber woven fabrics grafted with aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) was quantified by placing them in series with a glass mat of known permeability during a flow experiment. The methodology was first va ...

2021

The 2021 Magnonics Roadmap

Dirk Grundler, Thomas Yu, Heena Yang, Joyeeta Sinha

Magnonics is a budding research field in nanomagnetism and nanoscience that addresses the use of spin waves (magnons) to transmit, store, and process information. The rapid advancements of this field during last one decade in terms of upsurge in research p ...

2021

Extension of Lorentz reciprocity and Poynting theorems for spatially dispersive media with quadrupolar responses

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri

We provide a self-consistent extension of the Lorentz reciprocity theorem and the Poynting theorem for media possessing electric and magnetic dipolar and quadrupolar responses related to electric and magnetic fields and field gradients thus corresponding t ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Cloaking property of a plasmonic structure in doubly complementary media and three-sphere inequalities with partial data

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

We investigate cloaking property of negative-index metamaterials in the time-harmonic electromagnetic setting for the so-called doubly complementary media. These are media consisting of negative-index metamaterials in a shell (plasmonic structure) and posi ...

2020

The invisibility via anomalous localized resonance of a source for electromagnetic waves

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

We investigate the invisibility via anomalous localized resonance of a general source in anisotropic media for electromagnetic waves. To this end, we first introduce the concept of doubly complementary media in the electromagnetic setting. These are media ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Method and spectrometer apparatus for investigating an infrared absorption of a sample

Hatice Altug, Andreas Tittl, Aleksandrs Leitis

A method of investigating a sample (1) having an absorption within an infrared spectral range of interest, comprises the steps of creating measuring light (2) with a light source device (10), wherein the measuring light (2) includes wavelengths covering th ...

2019

Review of recent experimental and modeling advances in the understanding of lower hybrid current drive in ITER-relevant regimes

Yiming Li, Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Rebecca Hill, Fang Liu

Progress in understanding lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) at high density has been made through experiments and modeling, which is encouraging given the need for an efficient off-axis current profile control technique in burning plasma. By reducing the w ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Cloaking an arbitrary object via anomalous localized resonance: the cloak is independent of the object

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

n this paper, we present various schemes of cloaking an arbitrary object via anomalous localized resonance and provide their analysis in two and three dimensions. This is a way to cloak an object using negative index materials in which the cloaking device ...

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics2017

Light Scattering Enhancement at the Absorption Edge in Dewetting Droplets of Cyanine Dyes

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Florent Alexandre Boudoire

Diffraction properties of thin films of dewetted cyanine dye droplets are investigated and related to the complex refractive index. Strong changes in the index of refraction are often found near the absorption edge of organic dyes. Within a small window of ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Transition of optical regime in miniaturized optical systems: light interactions beyond the refraction limit

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Myun Sik Kim

We investigate the transition of optical regimes of miniaturized optical systems using two canonical examples, where the refraction of light limits the system performance. A ball-lens and a solid immersion lens (SIL) are considered, whose refractive respon ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Experimental verification of the method for producing a three-dimensional cross-pairs metamaterial structure based on a dielectric AlN cube

Przemyslaw Andrzej Gorski

This paper presents a method of manufacturing 3D metamaterial structures using laser radiation. Our proposed material, aluminum nitride (AlN), by interaction of a high-energy laser beam undergoes a direct metallization process, a result of which a conducti ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Acoustic metamaterial properties of a 2D closed cellular solid with entrained fluid

Vladimir Dorodnitsyn

Metamaterials are often defined as artificial compositions designed to exhibit desired physical properties. These materials attract a lot of research attention due to unusual behavior that may not yet have been seen in nature. Although there is no commonly ...

EPFL2016

Two-dimensional fluid-filled closed-cell cellular solid as an acoustic metamaterial with negative index

Vladimir Dorodnitsyn

A concept for acoustic metamaterials consisting of a cellular medium with fluid-filled cells is fabricated and studied experimentally. In such a system, the fluid and solid structure explicitly interact, and elastic wave propagation is coupled to both phas ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Acoustic carpet cloak based on an ultrathin metasurface

Juan Ramon Mosig, Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Seyyed Hussein Seyyed Esfahlani

An acoustic metasurface carpet cloak based on membrane-capped cavities is proposed and investigated numerically. This design has been chosen for allowing ultrathin geometries, although adapted to airborne sound frequencies in the range of 1 kHz (λ≈30 cm), ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Contribution of spontaneous polarization and its fluctuations to refraction of light in ferroelectrics

Alexander Tagantsev

The expressions for the spontaneous polar contribution delta n (i) (s) to the principal values of the refractive index due to the quadratic electro-optic effect in ferroelectrics have been considered within the phenomenological approach taking into account ...

Maik Nauka/Interperiodica/Springer2016

Refraction limit of miniaturized optical systems: a ball-lens example

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Myun Sik Kim, Roland Andreas Bitterli

We study experimentally and theoretically the electromagnetic field in amplitude and phase behind ball-lenses across a wide range of diameters, ranging from a millimeter scale down to a micrometer. Based on the observation, we study the transition between ...

Optical Society of America2016

Cloaking via anomalous localized resonance. A connection between the localized resonance and the blow up of the power for doubly complementary media

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

This paper is devoted to the study of cloaking via anomalous localized resonance (CALR) in two and three dimensions in the quasistatic regime. Two key figures of CALR are (i) the localized resonance and (ii) the connection between the localized resonance a ...

Elsevier2015

Cloaking via anomalous localized resonance for doubly complementary media in the quasistatic regime

Hoài-Minh Nguyên

This paper is devoted to the study of cloaking via anomalous localized resonance (CALR) in the two- and three-dimensional quasistatic regimes. CALR associated with negative index materials was discovered by Milton and Nicorovici [21] for constant plasmonic ...

European Mathematical Soc2015

Mid-infrared plasmonic biosensing with graphene

Hatice Altug, Dordaneh Etezadi, Daniel Rodrigo Lopez

Infrared spectroscopy is the technique of choice for chemical identification of biomolecules through their vibrational fingerprints. However, infrared light interacts poorly with nanometric-size molecules. We exploit the unique electro-optical properties o ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2015