Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 13535 |
Journal | Scientific Reports |
Volume | 5 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISSN | 2045-2322 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- MULTIDISCIPLINARY
- MAGNETIC RESPONSE
- LIGHT-SCATTERING
- NANOPARTICLES
- PERMITTIVITY
- TRANSISTORS
- FREQUENCY
- INDEX