META Conference, META'10

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A single-layer broad-angle negative-index metamaterial for the visible
Rene de Waele, Stanley P Burgos, Harry A. Atwater, Albert Polman

Last modified: 2009-11-03

Abstract


We propose a new design of metamaterials with negative index of refraction and high figure-of-merit in the visible spectral region. The material is composed of a single layer of coupled coaxial waveguides that consist of a thin dielectric ring surrounded by Ag. By studying both the individual and collective properties of the waveguides we find that the metamaterial response is highly tunable and only weakly dependent on the angle and polarization of incident light.


Keywords


metamaterials; plasmonics; nanophotonics