Ramakrishna / Grzegorczyk Physics and Applications of Negative Refractive Index Materials

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4200-6876-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Ever since the first experimental demonstration was reported in 2000, the interest in metamaterials and left-handed media that exhibit a negative refractive index has increased exponentially. Surveying this explosive growth, Physics and Applications of Negative Refractive Index Materials covers the fundamental physical principles and emerging engineering applications of structured electromagnetic metamaterials that yield a negative refraction as well as other unexpected physical properties. It provides detailed explanations on the history, development, and main achievements of metamaterials.

Making it easy to access relevant, up-to-date information on the field, the authors bring together the most important and influential papers related to metamaterials. They present the principles of negative refraction and compare the uniqueness of novel metamaterials with other media that exhibit similar properties. The book discusses the design, optimization, and testing of structured metamaterials as well as applications of metamaterials at frequencies ranging from radio wave to optical. It also explores novel concepts and phenomena, such as the perfect lens for super-resolution imaging, hyper lenses that couple the near-field to radiative modes, electromagnetic cloaking and invisibility, and near-field optical imaging.

Connecting theoretical ideas to recent experimental techniques and results, this state-of-the-art book enables an understanding of the basic principles of and research contributions to metamaterials with negative refractive index and their electromagnetic properties.

Zielgruppe

Materials scientists, physicists, engineers, researchers, and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramakrishna, S. Anantha

Grzegorczyk, Tomasz M.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

General historical perspective

The concept of metamaterials

Modeling the material response

Phase velocity and group velocity

Metamaterials and homogenization procedure
Metamaterials and Homogenization of Composites

The homogenization hypothesis

Limitations and consistency conditions

Forward problem
Inverse problems: retrieval and constitutive parameters

Homogenization from averaging the internal fields

Generalization to anisotropic and bianisotropic media
Designing Metamaterials with Negative Material Parameters

Negative dielectric materials

Metamaterials with negative magnetic permeability
Metamaterials with negative refractive index
Chiral metamaterials

Bianisotropic metamaterials

Active and nonlinear metamaterials
Negative Refraction and Photonic Bandgap Materials

Photonic crystals and bandgap materials

Band diagrams and iso-frequency contours

Negative refraction and flat lenses with photonic crystals

Negative refraction versus collimation or streaming
Media with e < 0 and µ < 0: Theory and Properties

Origins of negative refraction
Choice of the wave-vector and its consequences
Anisotropic and chiral media

Energy and Momentum in Negative Refractive Index Materials
Causality and energy density in frequency dispersive media
Electromagnetic energy in left-handed media
Momentum density, momentum flow, and transfer in media with negative material parameters

Limit of plane waves and small losses
Traversal of pulses in materials with negative material parameters
Plasmonics of Media with Negative Material Parameters

Surface electromagnetic modes in negative refractive materials
Waveguides made of negative index materials

Negative refraction of surface plasmons

Plasmonic properties of structured metallic surfaces

Surface waves at the interfaces of nonlinear media
Veselago’s Lens Is a Perfect Lens

Near-field information and diffraction limit

Mathematical demonstration of the perfect lens
Limitations due to real materials and imperfect NRMs
Issues with numerical simulations and time evolution

Negative stream of energy with a perfect lens configuration

Effects of spatial dispersion
Designing Super Lenses
Overcoming the limitations of real materials
Generalized perfect lens theorem
The perfect lens in other geometries
Brief Report on Electromagnetic Invisibility
Concept of electromagnetic invisibility

Excluding electromagnetic fields

Cloaking with localized resonances
Appendix A: The Fresnel Coefficients for Reflection and Refraction
Appendix B: The Dispersion and Fresnel Coefficients for a Bianisotropic Medium

Appendix C: The Reflection and Refraction of Light across a Material Slab

References

Index