Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials at the Quantum Limit

Montaño, Inès; Campione, Salvatore; Klem, John F.; Beechem, Thomas E.; Wolf, Omri; Sinclair, Michael B.; Luk, Ting S.

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-35099-8

Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials at the Quantum Limit

Journal Article · Sun Nov 11 23:00:00 EST 2018 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35099-8· OSTI ID:1483973

Montaño, Inès ^[1]; ^[1]; Klem, John F. ^[1]; Beechem, Thomas E. ^[1]; Wolf, Omri ^[1]; Sinclair, Michael B. ^[1]; Luk, Ting S. ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

We study semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials (SHMs) at the quantum limit experimentally using spectroscopic ellipsometry as well as theoretically using a new microscopic theory. The theory is a combination of microscopic density matrix approach for the material response and Green’s function approach for the propagating electric field. Our approach predicts absorptivity of the full multilayer system and for the first time allows the prediction of in-plane and out-of-plane dielectric functions for every individual layer constructing the SHM as well as effective dielectric functions that can be used to describe a homogenized SHM.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 1483973

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1576894

Report Number(s):: SAND--2018-12237J; 669146

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 8; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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