International Journal of Terahertz Science and Technology
  TST >> Vol.6, No.2, June 2013: PP. 125-146
 

(Invited Paper) Transparent metals and inhomogeneous meta-surfaces

Zhengyong Song, Shiyi Xiao, Qiong He, Shulin Sun, and Lei Zhou *
State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education) and Physics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
* Email: phzhou@fudan.edu.cn

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Abstract: We present a short overview on the research works related to two hot topics in metamaterials: transparent metals and inhomogeneous meta-surfaces. For the first topic, we first introduce a scattering-cancellation mechanism for making continuous metals optically transparent, and then propose a realistic design in optical domain, and finally experimentally prove the idea in both microwave and terahertz frequency domains. For the second topic, we show that light reflection/refraction at a carefully designed gradient-index meta-surface follows a generalized Snell's law, and then demonstrate that such a system can perfectly convert a propagating electromagnetic wave to a surface wave under certain conditions, and finally introduce several interesting applications of this type of systems.

Keywords: Metamaterials, Transparent metal, Terahertz, Scattering cancellation mechanism.

Received: 2013-5-2

Published: 2013-6-30

Cite this article:
Zhengyong Song, Shiyi Xiao, Qiong He, Shulin Sun, and Lei Zhou.(Invited Paper) Transparent metals and inhomogeneous meta-surfaces[J]. International Journal of Terahertz Science and Technology, 2013, Vol.6, No.2: 125-146.  DOI:10.11906/TST.125-146.2013.06.08

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