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Abstract:
We report that cylindrical hyperbolic metamaterials (CHMMs) exhibit superscattering (SSc) in the visible region, based on analytical and numerical calculations. It has normalized scattering cross-section (NSCS) twice as large as that from cylinders consisting of homogeneous materials. This large NSCS is due to constructive interference of multipolar resonances. Finite-difference time-domain calculations revealed that the spatial field-distribution at the SSc condition is similar to that of a whispering gallery mode (WGM), suggesting that the WGM-like field distribution is responsible for the large scattering. It is also reported that the SSc can be achieved in CHMM of epsilon near zero materials.
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