Characterization of the tunable response of highly strained compliant optical metamaterials

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1950, 2011, Pages 3447-3455

  Pryce, Imogen M ^a   Aydin, Koray ^a   Kelaita, Yousif A ^a   Briggs, Ryan M ^a   Atwater, Harry A ^a,b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Kavli Nanoscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared sensors.; Mechanical deformation; Metamaterial

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; INFRARED DETECTORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; RESONATORS; SENSORS; STRAIN; SUBSTRATES;

COMPLIANT SUBSTRATES; COUPLED RESONATOR SYSTEMS; COUPLING STRENGTHS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; ELASTIC LIMIT; ELASTIC RESPONSE; FREQUENCY TUNABILITY; HIGHLY STRAINED; INFRA-RED SENSOR; LOCAL STRAINS; MECHANICAL DEFORMABILITY; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; PLASTIC DEFORMATION LIMIT; POLYMERIC SUBSTRATE; POST-FABRICATION; RESONANT FREQUENCY SHIFT; TUNABILITIES; VIBRATION ABSORPTION;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80052985049     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0122     Document Type: Article

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