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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 24: Photonic crystals II

HL 24.14: Talk

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 13:00–13:15, EW 202

Three-dimensional photonic metamaterials at optical frequencies — •Na Liu¹, Hongcang Guo¹, Liwei Fu¹, Stefan Kaiser², Heinz Schweizer¹, and Harald Giessen¹ — ¹4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany — ²1st Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany

We present a general method to manufacture three-dimensional optical metamaterials [1] using a layer-by-layer technique. Specifically, we introduce a fabrication process involving planarization, lateral alignment, and stacking [2]. We experimentally demonstrate three-dimensional split-ring resonator metamaterials as well as fish-net metamaterials. We investigate the interaction between adjacent stacked layers using the method of plasmon hybridization [2,3] and analyze the optical properties of stacked metamaterials with respect to an increasing number of layers. Our method should pave the way towards bulk metamaterials and give new design rules for a broadband response.

[1] C. M. Soukoulis, S. Linden, and M. Wegener, Science 315, 47 (2007).

[2] N. Liu, H. C. Guo, L. W. Fu, S. Kaiser, H. Schweizer, and H. Giessen, Nat. Mater. (2007), in press.

[3] N. Liu, H. C. Guo, L. W. Fu, S. Kaiser, H. Schweizer, and H. Giessen, Adv. Mat. 19, 3628 (2007).