Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Tunable Metamaterials via Spinodal Decomposition

Chen, Zuhuang; Wang, Xi; Qi, Yajun; Yang, Sui; Soares, Julio A.  N.  T.; Apgar, Brent A.; Gao, Ran; Xu, Ruijuan; Lee, Yeonbae; Zhang, Xiang; Yao, Jie; Martin, Lane W.

doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b05736

Title: Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Tunable Metamaterials via Spinodal Decomposition

Journal Article · Wed Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2016 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b05736· OSTI ID:1530260

Chen, Zuhuang ^[1]; Wang, Xi ^[2]; Qi, Yajun ^[3]; Yang, Sui ^[1]; Soares, Julio A. N. T. ^[4]; Apgar, Brent A. ^[2]; Gao, Ran ^[2]; Xu, Ruijuan ^[2]; Lee, Yeonbae ^[2]; Zhang, Xiang ^[1]; Yao, Jie ^[1]; Martin, Lane W. ^[1]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Hubei Univ., Wuhan (China)
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Self-assembly via nanoscale phase separation offers an elegant route to fabricate nanocomposites with physical properties unattainable in single-component systems. One important class of nanocomposites are optical metamaterials which exhibit exotic properties and lead to opportunities for agile control of light propagation. Such metamaterials are typically fabricated via expensive and hard-to-scale top-down processes requiring precise integration of dissimilar materials. In turn, there is a need for alternative, more efficient routes to fabricate large-scale metamaterials for practical applications with deep-subwave length resolution. Here, we demonstrate a bottom-up approach to fabricate scalable nanostructured metamaterials via spinodal decomposition. To demonstrate the potential of such an approach, we leverage the innate spinodal decomposition of the VO₂-TiO₂ system, the metal-to-insulator transition in VO₂, and thin-film epitaxy, to produce self-organized nanostructures with coherent interfaces and a structural unit cell down to 15 nm (tunable between horizontally and vertically aligned lamellae) wherein the iso-frequency surface is temperature-tunable from elliptic to hyperbolic dispersion producing metamaterial behavior. These results provide an efficient route for the fabrication of nanostructured metamaterials and other nanocomposites for desired functionalities.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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OSTI ID:: 1530260

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Vol. 10, Issue 11; ISSN 1936-0851

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