Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Tunable Metamaterials via Spinodal Decomposition
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- 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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1530260
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Nano
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0851
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
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, and Martin, Lane W. Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Tunable Metamaterials via Spinodal Decomposition. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b05736.
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. Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Tunable Metamaterials via Spinodal Decomposition. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b05736
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, and Martin, Lane W. Wed .
"Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Tunable Metamaterials via Spinodal Decomposition". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b05736. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1530260.
@article{osti_1530260,
title = {Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Tunable Metamaterials via Spinodal Decomposition},
author = {Chen, Zuhuang and Wang, Xi and Qi, Yajun and Yang, Sui and Soares, Julio A. N. T. and Apgar, Brent A. and Gao, Ran and Xu, Ruijuan and Lee, Yeonbae and Zhang, Xiang and Yao, Jie and Martin, Lane W.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1021/acsnano.6b05736},
journal = {ACS Nano},
number = 11,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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