In this paper, we present a low-cost and high-throughput nanofabrication method to realize metasurfaces that have selective absorption/emission in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. We have developed DUV projection lithography to produce arbitrary patterns with sub-80 nm feature sizes. As examples of practical applications, we experimentally demonstrate structures with sin...

We show that a weakly absorbing, strongly scattering (white) medium can be made very strongly absorbing at any frequency within its strong-scattering bandwidth by optimizing the input electromagnetic field. For uniform absorption, results from random matrix theory imply that the reflectivity of the medium can be suppressed by a factor ∼(ℓ(a)/ℓ)N(-2), where N is the number of incident channels a...

DOI: 10.1002/smll.201002169 Hybrid organic–inorganic nanostructures are a critical platform for a wide range of chemical and biological sensing applications. [ 1– 3 ] Optical responses, such as Raman scattering and absorbance, serve as a signature for specifi c chemical groups and can be used for identifi cation and quantifi cation of analyte molecules. [ 4 ] Raman scattering, which is the quan...

Recently, there has been increasing concern regarding the safety of exposure to RF electromagnetic fields in pregnant females and their fetuses. In this study, we acquired fetal magnetic resonance imaging at 20 26 and 29 weeks from a healthy volunteer of pregnancy and developed the pregnant female models at those weeks of pregnancy by combining the fetal models constructed on the basis of the f...

We present a semiclassical analysis for the electric dipole absorption of electromagnetic radiation by small metallic particles, in the case where the electron motion is diffusive. We find that there are two contributions to the one-body effective potential: the ‘static’ potential makes a dominant contribution to the absorption coefficient below the frequency ωc = D/a2, and the ‘dynamic’ potent...

Thanks to its high electrical conductivity, a graphene plane presents a good shielding efficiency against GHz electromagnetic radiations. Several graphene planes separated by thin polymer spacers add their conductivities arithmetically, because each of them conserves the intrinsic properties of isolated graphene. Maximum absorption of radiations for frequency around 30 GHz is achieved with six ...

In this paper, we have studied QNM modes and absorption cross sections of Born-Infeld-de Sitter black holes. WKB approximation is employed to compute the QNM modes of massless scalar fields. We have also used null geodesics to compute quasi-normal modes in the eikonal approximation. In the eikonal limit QNMs of black holes are determined by the parameters of the circular null geodesics. Unstabl...

We present an extension of the Bérenger Perfectly Matched Layer with additional terms and tunable coefficients which introduce some asymmetry in the absorption rate. We show that the discretized version of the new PML offers superior absorption rates than the discretized standard PML under a plane wave analysis. We also introduce a new method for applying the Mesh Refinement technique to electr...

We present various experiments involving Rydberg atoms interacting with resonant microwave electromagnetic fields inside a cavity, allowing to check different features of the theory presented in the previous paper. We first describe experiments about superradiant emission by Rydberg states in the cavity, also called transient Rydberg atoms maser; the evolution of the system is detected either o...