Metamaterials

Alu, A. and Engheta, N. (2006) Theory of linear chains of metamaterial/plasmonic particles as subdiffraction optical nanotransmission lines. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter, 74, 205436. 

Lee J, Javed T, Skeini T, Govorov AO, Bryant GW, Kotov NA (2006) Bioconjugated Ag nanoparticles and CdTe nanowires metamaterials with field-enhanced light absorption. Angew Chem Int Ed 45 4819-4823... 

As far as SAM-controlled electrochemical metal deposition is concerned, substantial interest derives from microelectronics with its need to control the generation of interconnects and, thus, to understand the influence of organic layers on the metal nucleation and growth. However, the scope of this topic reaches well bqfond that, as illustrated by the substantial range of potential applications where small-scaled metal structures are of crucial importance, for example in electrochemical [31] and optical [32] sensing, molecular electronics [33], for plasmonics [34], or as metamaterials [35]. 

Finally, an area that will most likely see an explosive growth over the next few years is the self-assembly of nanoparticles covered with mesogenic and pro-mesogenic capping agents. A number of different approaches have been summarized in this review, and the formation of nematic, smectic-like, cubic, and columnar phases and/or superstructures have been demonstrated. Once more, the possibilities to produce such metamaterials using nanoparticles and liquid crystal motifs are endless, and future research will surely discover other, in part, more complex phase morphologies as well as uniquely tunable nanoscale properties as a result of liquid crystal phase formation. 

DuFort CC, Dragnea B (2010) Bio-enabled synthesis of metamaterials. Ann Rev Phys Chem 61 323-344. Annual Reviews Palo Alto... 

One of the key developments in SE(R)RS over the last 10 or so years has been the development of structured surfaces designed to achieve strong SERS enhancements by controlling the plasmonics of the surface and thus the electromagnetic enhancement. This is a very active area of research which overlaps with work in the wider fields of nanophotonics and optical metamaterials [104, 105]. A number of excellent reviews of the area have been published in the last few years [11,15-17, 26-28, 106]. 

Having determined the fundamental properties of higher order FDTD algorithms, a set of more complicated problems will be studied in this section. These include the analysis of microstrip, cavity-backed or dielectric resonator antennas with different polarizations, fractal arrays, and metamaterial-loaded structures. 

T. Kokkinos, C. Sarris, and G. Eleftheriades, Periodic finite-difference time-domain analysis of loaded transmission-line negative-refractive-index metamaterials, IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1488-1495, Apr. 2005. doi 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845197... 

K. J. Morton, K. Loutherback, D. W. Inglis, O. K. Tsui, J. C. Sturm, S. Y. Chou and R. H. Austin, Hydrodynamic metamaterials Microfabricated arrays to steer, refract, and focus streams of biomaterials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, 7434-7438 (2008). 

Inhomogeneous media with micro- and nanosized structural features are known to strongly alter the character of various physical processes compared to common homogeneous materials. For example, photonic band gap (PBG) structures and metamaterials can be used for subwavelength light control [1]. Similarly, quantum heterostructures such as quantum dots and quantum wells have shown great promise in nano- and optoelectronics, as well as in quantum computing. 

A metamaterial is a type of artificially engineered material that typically features a pattern or periodic arrangement of a material. Metamaterials are characterized by the fact that they take on specific macroscopic physical properties based on their structure or the pattern in which the material is arranged, but not necessarily the composition of the material. Another way to say this is that the elemental makeup of a metamaterial is not as important as the interned structure of the metamaterial. By relying on the structure of the material to influence its properties, metamaterials have been able to achieve properties... 

Brunet T, Leng J, Mondain-Monval O (2013) Soft acoustic metamaterials. Science 342 323-324... 

Kuzmiak V et al (chairs/eds) (2007) Metamaterials II 16-18 Apr 2007, Prague, Czech Republic spons. by SPIE Europe cooperating org. SPIE Czech Republic Chapter et al. publ. by SPIE -The International Society for Optical Engineering, SPIE Lee J et al (eds) (2005) Innovative superhard materials and sustainable coatings for advanced manufacturing. Kluwer, Boston, MA... 

Noginov MA et al (eds) (2008) Metamaterials fundamentals and applications 10-13 Aug 2008, San Diego, California, USA spons. and publ. by SPIE Paulino GH et al (eds) (2008) Multiscale and functionally graded materials. In Proceedings of the international conference, FGMIX, Oahu Island, Hawaii, 15-18 Oct 2006 spons. org University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) et al., American Institute of Physics Sekhar JA et al (eds) (2008) Iimovation in materials science special topic volume with invited papers only. Trans Tech, Enfield, NH... 

P. Los, A. Lukomska, S. Kowalska, R. Jeziorska, J. Kmpka, Obtaining and properties of polyolefin composites metamaterials with copper micro-and nanoflakes. Polym. Rapid Commun. 56, 324-327 (2011)... 

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