Reconfigurable photonic metamaterials.

Ou, J Y; Plum, E; Jiang, L; Zheludev, N I · Nano Lett · 2011

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We introduce mechanically reconfigurable photonic metamaterials (RPMs) as a flexible platform for realizing metamaterial devices with reversible and large-range tunable characteristics in the optical part of the spectrum. Here we illustrate this concept for a temperature-driven RPM exhibiting reversible relative transmission changes of up to 50%.