A Theoretical study on Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials (Review)

Madhurrya P. Talukdar Tezpur University

Contents

• Introduction• Negative refraction• Electromagnetic Wave propagation• How to make NIM• Conclusion

Introduction

Invisibility

Camouflage Stealth technology

Vacuum property(most effective)

Possible types of materials:

•μ>0, Є>0, being most known materials, natural or otherwise.

•μ>0, Є<0, being materials not well investigated.

•μ<0, Є>0, also being materials not well investigated

•μ<0, Є<0, where these materials do not exist naturally(Metamaterials)

Metamaterials

Man-made materials

First introduced theoretically by Victor Veselago in 1967

Consists of Artificially structured units (meta-atoms)

Meta atoms composed of two or more conventional materials

Negative refraction:

empty glass regular water, n = 1.3

“negative” water, n = -1.3

Group velocity vg is in the opposite direction to the wave (or phase) velocity, vp

The structural array of metamaterials must be smaller than the EM wavelength used.

To achieve negative refraction MM’s must interact with the magnetic component of light.

* ‘Probing the Magnetic Field of Light at Optical Frequencies’ Brussi et.al VOL 326 SCIENCE

Electromagnetic wave propagation and cloaking

Theory

Transformation optics is a simple approach to design MM’s (Pendry et.al)

Light enters n > 0 material deflection

Light enters n < 0 material focusing (“Veselago Lens”)

What happens to light in NIM?

Fermat’s principle states light rays take the shortest optical paths in dielectric media

When n is spatially varying shortest optical paths are usually curved.

Fig: bending of light around a cloaked object (Leonhart 2006)

Cloaking

W. Cai et al., “Optical cloaking with meta-material,” Nat. Photonics 1, 224 (2007).

G. Abajo et al., “Tunneling mechanism of light transmission through metallic films,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 067403 (2005).

T. Ebbesen et al., Nature 391, 667 (1998).

G. Gay et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 213901 (2006).

W. Barnes et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 107401 (2004).

A. Alu & N. Engheta, Phys. Rev. E 72, 016623 (2005).

In microwave range: use “perfectly” conducting components to simulate < 0 and < 0, Smith et.al., (2000)

How to make NIM?

Metal poles: = 1 – p2/2 < 0

Split-ring resonators, Pendry’99: “geometric” resonance at M

2/1

log(D/r)

2

D

cp

0 122

2

M

MF

Split Ring Resonators

At frequency> resonant frequency the real part of μ of the SRR becomes negative.

Combining the negative permeability with negative dielectric constant of another material to produce negative refractive index metamaterials.

Challenges: (a) moving to optical frequencies (infrared, visible, UV) (b) simplifying the structure ( < 0 and < 0 from same element)

Optical meta-materials have been shown to have remarkable applications:

Can be used to engineer exotic meta-media: Negative Index Materials plasmonic approach to making a sub-l NIMNIMs and negative e materials can be used to overcome diffraction limit and construct a super-lens

A super-lens enables ultra-deep sub-surface imaging

Very new field lots of work to do (theory and experiments)

Conclusion

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