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Omnidirectional bandgaps in Fibonacci quasicrystals containing single-negative materials
Xin-Hua Deng1, Jiang-Tao Liu, Jie-Hui Huang
1School of Science, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, People's Republic of China. xhdengxh@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract:
The band structure and bandgaps of one-dimensional Fibonacci quasicrystals composed of epsilon-negative materials and mu-negative materials are studied. We show that an omnidirectional bandgap (OBG) exists in the Fibonacci structure. In contrast to the Bragg gaps, such an OBG is insensitive to the incident angle and the polarization of light, and the width and location of the OBG cease to change with increasing Fibonacci order, but vary with the thickness ratio of both components, and the OBG closes when the thickness ratio is equal to the golden ratio. Moreover, the general formulations of the higher and lower band edges of the OBG are obtained by the effective medium theory. These results could lead to further applications of Fibonacci structures.
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