All optical metamaterial circuit board at the nanoscale

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Alù, Andrea ^a,b   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; CIRCUIT BOARDS; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NANO SCALE; NANOCIRCUITS; NONLOCAL; OPTICAL DISPLACEMENT;

METAMATERIALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 70349762653     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.143902     Document Type: Article

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16. See EPAPS Document No. E-PRLTAO-103-021941. Figure 1 shows an analogy between the optical magnetic field distribution (snapshots in time) in a nanoscale loop of air groove carved in the nanocircuit board, analogous to Fig. 1, and in the corresponding low-frequency regular rf electronic circuit. For more information on EPAPS, see http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html.
17. See EPAPS Document No. E-PRLTAO-103-021941. Figure 2 is similar to Fig. 2, but showing how the confinement of displacement current along the carved channel ensures that the relative position of a pair of nanocircuit elements in a series circuit does not affect the circuit response in its entirety. In the plasmonic (gray) nanoparticle, with negative real part of permittivity, the electric field (snapshot in time) is reversed, ensuring continuity of the displacement current and zero voltage drop along the resonant pair, independent of their relative position. For more information on EPAPS, see http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html.
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