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Characterizing Dissipative Elastic Metamaterials Produced by Additive Manufacturing
Published on: June 28, 2024
A metamaterial based on coupled metallic nanoparticles and its band-gap property
1Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Max-Wien Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany. carsten.rockstuhl@uni-jena.de
Abstract:
The properties of an ensemble of densely packed metallic nanoparticles and the effective material properties of a metamaterial based on them are studied in detail using rigorous diffraction theory. We show that in the spectral vicinity of the plasmon resonance, the metamaterial shows a well-defined Lorentzian resonance in its effective permittivity whereas the permeability is unaltered. The metamaterial shows a stop band in the spectral domain where the real part of the effective permittivity is negative. Modifying the effective properties of the metamaterial allows efficient tuning of the band-gap properties. The implementation of the proposed approach towards a band-gap metamaterial employing self-organization in liquid crystals is discussed.
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