Physical limits in electromagnetism

P Chao, B Strekha, R Kuate Defo, S Molesky… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering.
Although improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven …

An optic to replace space and its application towards ultra-thin imaging systems

O Reshef, MP DelMastro, KKM Bearne… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Centuries of effort to improve imaging has focused on perfecting and combining lenses to
obtain better optical performance and new functionalities. The arrival of nanotechnology has …

Radiative cooling gray paint with high solar reflectance for thermal management of electronic equipment

H Zhang, Y Yang, J Huang, D Fan - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Colored appearance is an ongoing pursue for the devising of radiative cooling paint (RCP),
while the inevitable absorption of solar radiation remains a huge hurdle to meet the …

Theoretical prediction of the effective dynamic dielectric constant of disordered hyperuniform anisotropic composites beyond the long-wavelength regime

J Kim, S Torquato - Optical Materials Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Torquato and Kim [Phys. Rev. X11, 296 021002 (2021) 10.1103/PhysRevX. 11.021002]
derived exact nonlocal strong-contrast expansions of the effective dynamic dielectric …

Effective electromagnetic wave properties of disordered stealthy hyperuniform layered media beyond the quasistatic regime

J Kim, S Torquato - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Disordered stealthy hyperuniform dielectric composites exhibit novel electromagnetic wave
transport properties in two and three dimensions. Here, we carry out the first study of the …

Existence conditions of high‐k modes in finite hyperbolic metamaterials

M Mahmoodi, SH Tavassoli… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The capability to support optical waves with very large wave vectors (high‐k) is one of the
principle features of hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs). These waves play the key role in …

Giant enhancement of nonreciprocity in gyrotropic heterostructures

I Katsantonis, AC Tasolamprou, T Koschny… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Nonreciprocity is a highly desirable feature in photonic media since it allows for control over
the traveling electromagnetic waves, in a way that goes far beyond ordinary filtering. One of …

Boundary conditions for the effective-medium description of subwavelength multilayered structures

MA Gorlach, M Lapine - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Nanostructures with one-dimensional periodicity, such as multilayered structures, are
currently in the focus of active research in the context of hyperbolic metamaterials and …

Photo-tunable terahertz absorber based on intercalated few-layer graphene

M Masyukov, AN Grebenchukov, EA Litvinov… - Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we show the ability of usage intercalated few-layer graphene for the
development of an optically tunable absorbing metasurface. The geometrical parameters of …

Extreme-parameter non-Hermitian dielectric metamaterials

M Coppolaro, M Moccia, V Caligiuri, G Castaldi… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The emerging fields of non-Hermitian optics and photonics are inspiring radically new,
unconventional ways of mixing active and passive constituents to attain exotic light–matter …