Sentences with phrase «hyperbolic metamaterials»

Milton said the idea of field patterns came to him while he was pondering a class of materials called hyperbolic metamaterials.

Because of the way light waves move through hyperbolic metamaterials, they can be used as superlenses to view objects too small to be seen with other microscopy methods.

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.

As a van der Waels crystal — a layered crystal structure similar to graphene or graphite — hBN was demonstrated to be two orders of magnitude more efficient than hyperbolic metamaterials shown to date, says Caldwell.

These hyperbolic metamaterials are the basis for many potential applications such as «hyperlenses,» used for imaging of nanoscale objects not observable using conventional optics.