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Negative Refractive Index Materials

Negative Refractive Index Materials Victor Veselago,1 Leonid Braginsky,2 Valery Shklover,3 and Christian Hafner4 ∗ 1Laboratory of Magnetic Materials, A. M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, 38 Vavilov Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia 2Institute of Semiconductors’ Physics, 13 Lavrent’eva Pr., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia 3Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland 4L...

Optical negative-index metamaterials

Negative index lens aberrations.

We examine the Seidel aberrations of thin spherical lenses composed of media with refractive index not restricted to be positive. We find that consideration of this expanded parameter space allows for the reduction or elimination of more aberrations than is possible with only positive index media. In particular, we find that spherical lenses possessing real aplanatic focal points are possible o...

Negative acoustic index metamaterial

Acoustic metamaterials utilizing periodic deep subwavelength resonators can attain negative acoustic properties unavailable in nature. We have developed a negative acoustic index metamaterial for water that combines Helmholtz and rod-spring resonators to control effective bulk modulus and mass density, respectively. Effective properties extracted from full-wave simulations of our metamaterial s...

Negative Index Materials

and co-workers use a nanotransfer printing technique to fabricate large-area visible 3D negative index metamaterials. Alternating silver and dielectric layers are printed over a large area on a fl exible substrate, and deposition conditions are introduced such that nearly ideal geometries with excellent optical properties are obtained.