In undergraduate courses on classical electromagnetism, it is taught that a perfect conductor
expels the electromagnetic (EM) field, and hence its surface is not able to support the …

Electromagnetic absorbers have drawn increasing attention in many areas. A series of
plasmonic and metamaterial structures can work as efficient narrowband absorbers due to …

Solar energy absorption is a very important field in photonics. The successful development
of an efficient, wide-band solar absorber is an extremely powerful driver in this field. We …

Plasmonic metasurfaces, which can be considered as the two-dimensional analog of metal-
based metamaterials, have attracted progressively increasing attention in recent years …

This Colloquium presents an overview of the research on nonlinear electromagnetic
metamaterials. The developed theoretical approaches and experimental designs are …

We present the design, fabrication, and performance analysis for a class of two-dimensional
acoustic cloaking coatings in air. Our approach takes advantage of transformation acoustics …

Following a theoretical proposal [M. Farhat, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024301 (2009) PRLTAO
0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 103.024301], we design, fabricate, and characterize a …

Recent advances in nanofabrication technologies have spurred many breakthroughs in the
field of photonic metamaterials that provide efficient ways of manipulating light–matter …

Optical absorbers find uses in a wide array of applications across the electromagnetic
spectrum, including photovoltaic and photochemical cells, photodetectors, optical filters …

We report a broadband polarization-independent perfect absorber with wide-angle near
unity absorbance in the visible regime. Our structure is composed of an array of thin Au …