«Metamaterials seem simple, but their physics is more complicated,» she says, explaining that she and her team focused on
dielectric metamaterials, which are built of elements that don't conduct electricity.
Not exact matches
The tunable
dielectric and magnetic properties of
metamaterials could be used in stealth technologies to cloak an object from view.
Unlike metallic /
dielectric hyperbolic
metamaterials, hBN also provides the additional functionality of both types of hyperbolicity, allowing both the in - plane and out - of - plane crystal axes to behave metallic -(reflective) or
dielectric - like (transparent) simply by changing the wavelength of the exciting light.
In a new paper, electrical engineers at Duke University demonstrate the first completely
dielectric (non-metal) electromagnetic
metamaterial — a surface dimpled with cylinders like the face of a Lego brick that is designed to absorb terahertz waves.