Water: Promising Opportunities For Tunable All-dielectric Electromagnetic Metamaterials

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We reveal an outstanding potential of water as an inexpensive, abundant and bio-friendly high-refractive-index material for creating tunable all-dielectric photonic structures and metamaterials. Specifically, we demonstrate thermal, mechanical and gravitational tunability of magnetic and electric resonances in a metamaterial consisting of periodically positioned water-filled reservoirs. The proposed water-based metamaterials can find applications not only as cheap and ecological microwave devices, but also in optical and terahertz metamaterials prototyping and educational lab equipment.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Sci Rep

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Sci Rep

Title: Scientific Reports

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

ISSN (Electronic): 2045-2322

Publication date (Electronic): 27 August 2015

Publication date Collection: 2015

Volume: 5

Electronic Location Identifier: 13535

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[1 ]DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark , Ørsteds Plads 343, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

[2 ]Radiophysics Department, University of Nizhny Novgorod , Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia

[3 ]ITMO University , St. Petersburg 197101, Russia

[4 ]Nonlinear Physics Center, Australian National University , Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

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[a ] andra@ 123456fotonik.dtu.dk

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DOI: 10.1038/srep13535

PMC ID: 4550894

PubMed ID: 26311410

SO-VID: a9e5c96b-7a0c-4da9-b7b8-79c4701e885b

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