Abstract:
The present invention is related to an imaging metamaterial, comprising at least one resonant unit with a controllable split structure that comprises at least one gap and at least one segment, wherein the segment is connected by a node or separated by the gap. The present invention also provides a method for preparing an imaging metamaterial. The present invention further provides an imaging apparatus.
Abstract:
A plasmonic lens is presented comprising a surface for interaction with an input electromagnetic field, wherein this surface has a pattern comprising an arrangement of a plurality of elongated spaced-apart features of a predetermined geometry arranged in a spaced-apart relationship along at least one segment of a spiral curve, each of the pattern features defining an elongated interface for creation of surface waves in response to the interaction with the incident electromagnetic field, such that the pattern provides linear-polarization-independent plasmonic focusing and large area, high contrast, circular polarization dichroic plasmonic focusing.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods of applying a filtering coating to a substrate, comprising: depositing a solution on a surface of a substrate, wherein the solution comprises an organic solvent with nanorods dispersed within the solvent. Evaporation of the solution is allowed and/or controlled to increase a volume fraction of the nanorods in the solution as a function of the evaporation. Thus, an aligned deposit of the nanorods is provided as a function of the evaporation, wherein the aligned deposit of nanorods includes at least thousands of the nanorods with at least a majority of the nanorods aligned relative to a length of the nanorods.
Abstract:
A display apparatus including a display unit including at least one pixel area and a non-pixel area, the non-pixel area dividing the at least one pixel area; and a metamaterial structure that controls a path of light emitted from the at least one pixel area.
Abstract:
A transparent conducting electrode using a metamaterial high pass filter includes a substrate and a metal layer. The metal layer is disposed on a surface of the substrate and has a plurality of periodic patterns, wherein the plurality of periodic patterns are interconnected to form a metamaterial structure with subwavelength meshes, and a size of open area of the periodic pattern is smaller than the average wavelength of visible light. The abovementioned transparent conducting electrode using the metamaterial high pass filter has advantages of higher transmittance, conductivity and flexibility and lower process temperature.
Abstract:
An optical component is disclosed that comprises a first substrate, an optical material comprising quantum confined semiconductor nanoparticles disposed over a predetermined region of a first surface of the first substrate, a layer comprising an adhesive material disposed over the optical material and any portion of the first surface of the first substrate not covered by the optical material, and a second substrate disposed over the layer comprising an adhesive material, wherein the first and second substrates are sealed together. In certain embodiments, the optical component further includes a second optical material comprising quantum confined semiconductor nanoparticles disposed between the layer comprising the adhesive material and the second substrate. Method are also disclosed. Also disclosed are products including the optical component.
Abstract:
An all-dielectric metamaterial cladding is provided that can strongly confine light inside conventional low-index dielectric waveguides for use with photonic integrated circuits and nano-photonic devices. A class of metamaterials with dual electric and magnetic anisotropy along with giant birefringence can provide the ideal quasi-transverse electromagnetic mode propagation inside a glass core. A Transformed Cladding Waveguide can show an order of magnitude decreased cross-talk as compared to conventional waveguides.
Abstract:
A separated colored liquid composition used in a device involving an optical modulation technique in which a liquid is moved or subjected to a change in shape by an external electric field to change color or brightness, the separated colored liquid composition containing a colored liquid, a non-colored liquid immiscible with the colored liquid, and at least one additive selected from a fluorine-based surfactant and a silicone-based surfactant. Use of such a composition as a composition for forming an image in a device involving an optical modulation technique in which a liquid is moved or subjected to a change in shape by an external electric field to change color or brightness.
Abstract:
An optical material and a method for producing the optical material, an optical element, and a hybrid optical element are provided. The optical material is composed of a resin material and inorganic fine particles dispersed in the resin material. The inorganic fine particles are fine particles formed of SiO2, and at least a part of a surface of each SiO2 fine particle is SiON obtained by substituting oxygen atoms at the surface with carbon atoms and then substituting the carbon atoms with nitrogen atoms.
Abstract:
The invention provides a detector comprising a metamaterial absorber and a micro-bolometer arranged to detect terahertz (THz) radiation. The metamaterial absorber can absorb multiple frequency bands, from the infrared and the THz regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The detector is scalable to be suitable for use in a focal plane array.The invention also provides a hybrid of a plasmonic filter, e.g. for optical radiation, and a metamaterial absorber for terahertz (and/or infrared) radiation, to create a single material capable of absorbing narrow band terahertz radiation and filtering radiation in another part of the spectrum, e.g. optical radiation. Such material has great potential in future imaging technology where hybridisation can maximise the spectral information density of an optical system.