2005/06/27 by Robyn Wangberg, Justin Elser, Evgenii E. Narimanov +1 · 169 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Composite material #Computer science #Index (typography) #Infrared #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Materials science #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Nanocomposite #Optics #Optoelectronics #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Physics #Refractive index #World Wide Web #physics.gen-ph #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/josab.23.000498
published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B 23(3), 498 (Optica Publishing Group)
arxiv created 2005/06/27 · openalex publication_date 2006/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We develop an approach to use nanostructured plasmonic materials as a nonmagnetic negative-refractive-index system at optical and near-infrared frequencies. In contrast to conventional negative-refraction materials, our design does not require periodicity and thus is highly tolerant to fabrication defects. Moreover, since the proposed materials are intrinsically nonmagnetic, their performance is not limited to the proximity of a resonance, so the resulting structure has relatively low loss. We develop the analytical description of the relevant electromagnetic phenomena and justify our analytic results via numerical solutions of Maxwell equations.