TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental verification of substrate-induced bianisotropy in optical metamaterials
AU - Jiang, Zhi Hao
AU - Yun, Seokho
AU - Ma, Ding
AU - Gorman, Philip
AU - Werner, Douglas Henry
AU - Liu, Zhiwen
AU - Mayer, Theresa S.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, we experimentally prove the theory that the supporting substrate underneath metallodielectric optical metamaterials induces bianisotropy due to the broken symmetry of the system. Specifically, an on-wafer fishnet structured metamaterial at near-infrared wavelengths was fabricated and fully characterized. The effective medium parameters extracted from the experimental data agree well with the theoretical predictions, thus confirming the existence of magnetoelectric coupling introduced by the substrate, which is otherwise absent in a free-standing fishnet metamaterial with the same dimensions. This study provides engineers and scientists insight into oft-overlooked properties of optical metamaterials.
AB - In this paper, we experimentally prove the theory that the supporting substrate underneath metallodielectric optical metamaterials induces bianisotropy due to the broken symmetry of the system. Specifically, an on-wafer fishnet structured metamaterial at near-infrared wavelengths was fabricated and fully characterized. The effective medium parameters extracted from the experimental data agree well with the theoretical predictions, thus confirming the existence of magnetoelectric coupling introduced by the substrate, which is otherwise absent in a free-standing fishnet metamaterial with the same dimensions. This study provides engineers and scientists insight into oft-overlooked properties of optical metamaterials.
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U2 - 10.1109/APS.2012.6349285
DO - 10.1109/APS.2012.6349285
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870547600
SN - 9781467304627
T3 - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)
BT - 2012 IEEE International Symposiumon Antennas and Propagation, APSURSI 2012 - Proceedings
T2 - Joint 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI 2012
Y2 - 8 July 2012 through 14 July 2012
ER -