Chapter 8 METAL AND METAMATERIAL OPTICS

  1. 8.1 SINGLE- AND DOUBLE-NEGATIVE MEDIA
    1. A. Wave Propagation in SNG and DNG Media
    2. B. Waves at Boundaries Between DPS, SNG, and DNG Media
    3. *C. Hyperbolic Media
  2. 8.2 METAL OPTICS: PLASMONICS
    1. A. Optical Properties of Metals
    2. B. Metal–Dielectric Boundary: Surface Plasmon Polaritons
    3. C. The Metallic Nanosphere: Localized Surface Plasmons
    4. D. Optical Antennas
  3. 8.3 METAMATERIAL OPTICS
    1. A. Metamaterials
    2. B. Metasurfaces
  4. *8.4 TRANSFORMATION OPTICS
    1. A. Transformation Optics
    2. B. Invisibility Cloaks
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Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (1863–1906), a German physicist, worked toward integrating optics with Maxwell’s electromagnetics. He forged a theory, commonly known as the Drude model, for describing the behavior of electrons in metals.

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Viktor Georgievich Veselago (born 1929), a Russian physicist, established theoretically in the 1960s that materials whose electric permittivity and magnetic permeability were both negative would exhibit unexpected and unusual properties.

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Sir John Pendry (born 1943), a British theoretical physicist, showed in 2000 that a slab of negative-index material acts as a lens with theoretically perfect focus. In 2006, he proposed the ...

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