TY - JOUR
T1 - Bulk optical metamaterials assembled by microfluidic evaporation
AU - Baron, Alexandre
AU - Iazzolino, Antonio
AU - Ehrhardt, Kevin
AU - Salmon, Jean-Baptiste
AU - Aradian, Ashod
AU - Kravets, Vasyl
AU - Grigorenko, Alexander N
AU - Leng, Jacques
AU - Le Beulze, Aurelie
AU - Treguer-Delapierre, Mona
AU - Correa-Duarte, Miguel A
AU - Barois, Philippe
N1 - Times Cited: 4
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We present high refractive index optical metamaterials assembled via a microfluidic evaporation technique. This technique enables fabrication of truly three-dimensional bulk samples from a suspension of nanoparticles with a number of layers well in excess of 600, surpassing rival techniques by at least an order of magnitude. In addition to their large dimensions, the assembled metamaterials show a high degree of homogeneity and warrant an easy and rapid optical characterization using spectroscopic ellipsometry. We believe that the suggested inexpensive method considerably reduces the complexity in assembling optical metamaterials and opens new avenues in engineering bulk optical devices by choice of nanoparticle composition and geometry. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
AB - We present high refractive index optical metamaterials assembled via a microfluidic evaporation technique. This technique enables fabrication of truly three-dimensional bulk samples from a suspension of nanoparticles with a number of layers well in excess of 600, surpassing rival techniques by at least an order of magnitude. In addition to their large dimensions, the assembled metamaterials show a high degree of homogeneity and warrant an easy and rapid optical characterization using spectroscopic ellipsometry. We believe that the suggested inexpensive method considerably reduces the complexity in assembling optical metamaterials and opens new avenues in engineering bulk optical devices by choice of nanoparticle composition and geometry. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
U2 - 10.1364/ome.3.001792
DO - 10.1364/ome.3.001792
M3 - Article
SN - 2159-3930
VL - 3
SP - 1792
EP - 1797
JO - Optical Materials Express
JF - Optical Materials Express
IS - 11
ER -