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Flexible chiral metamaterials with dynamically optical activity and high negative refractive index

  • Furkan Dincer
  • , Muharrem Karaaslan
  • , Emin Unal
  • , Oguzhan Akgol
  • , Cumali Sabah

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Abstract

We demonstrate numerically and experimentally chiral metamaterials (MTMs) based on gammadion-bilayer cross-wires that uniaxially create giant optical activity and tunable circular dichroism as a result of the dynamic design. In addition, the suggested structure gives high negative refractive index due to the large chirality in order to obtain an efficient polarization converter. We also present a numerical analysis in order to show the additional features of the proposed chiral MTM in detail. Therefore, a MTM sensor application of the proposed chiral MTM is introduced and discussed. The presented chiral designs offer a much simpler geometry and more efficient outlines. The experimental results are in a good agreement with the numerical simulation. It can be seen from the results that, the suggested chiral MTM can be used as a polarization converter, sensor, etc. for several frequency regimes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1550087
JournalModern Physics Letters B
Volume29
Issue number18
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 10 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Chiral metamaterial
  • chirality
  • optical activity
  • sensor

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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