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Fabricating Metamaterials Using the Fiber Drawing Method
Published on: October 18, 2012
Stacked-and-drawn metamaterials with magnetic resonances in the terahertz range
Alessandro Tuniz1, Richard Lwin, Alexander Argyros
1Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) and School of Physics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales 2006, Australia. alessandro.tuniz@sydney.edu.au
Abstract:
We present a novel method for producing drawn metamaterials containing slotted metallic cylinder resonators, possessing strong magnetic resonances in the terahertz range. The resulting structures are either spooled to produce a 2-dimensional metamaterial monolayer, or stacked to produce three-dimensional multi-layered metamaterials. We experimentally investigate the effects of the resonator size and number of metamaterial layers on transmittance, observing magnetic resonances between 0.1 and 0.4 THz, in good agreement with simulations. Such fibers promise future applications in mass-produced stacked or woven metamaterials.
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