Bulk optical metamaterials assembled by microfluidic evaporation

Alexandre Baron, Antonio Iazzolino, Kevin Ehrhardt, Jean-Baptiste Salmon, Ashod Aradian, Vasyl Kravets, Alexander N Grigorenko, Jacques Leng, Aurelie Le Beulze, Mona Treguer-Delapierre, Miguel A Correa-Duarte, Philippe Barois

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    Abstract

    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
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1792-1797
    Number of pages6
    JournalOptical Materials Express
    Volume3
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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