skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Large-Scale All-Dielectric Metamaterial Perfect Reflectors

Journal Article · · ACS Photonics
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [2];  [3]
  1. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States). Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program
  2. SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (United States). Applied Optics Lab.
  3. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences

All-dielectric metamaterials offer a potential low-loss alternative to plasmonic metamaterials at optical frequencies. In this paper, we take advantage of the low absorption loss as well as the simple unit cell geometry to demonstrate large-scale (centimeter-sized) all-dielectric metamaterial perfect reflectors made from silicon cylinder resonators. These perfect reflectors, operating in the telecommunications band, were fabricated using self-assembly based nanosphere lithography. In spite of the disorder originating from the self-assembly process, the average reflectance of the metamaterial perfect reflectors is 99.7% at 1530 nm, surpassing the reflectance of metallic mirrors. Moreover, the spectral separation of the electric and magnetic resonances can be chosen to achieve the required reflection bandwidth while maintaining a high tolerance to disorder. Finally, the scalability of this design could lead to new avenues of manipulating light for low-loss and large-area photonic applications.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Contributing Organization:
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (United States); SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; N00014-14-1-0475; N00014-12-1-0722
OSTI ID:
1265550
Journal Information:
ACS Photonics, Vol. 2, Issue 6; ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 242 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (31)

The Road Ahead for Metamaterials journal April 2010
Experimental Observation of Left-Handed Behavior in an Array of Standard Dielectric Resonators journal April 2007
High-Efficiency Dielectric Huygens’ Surfaces journal February 2015
All-Dielectric Rod-Type Metamaterials at Optical Frequencies journal March 2009
Low-Loss Plasmonic Metamaterials journal January 2011
Realization of an all-dielectric zero-index optical metamaterial journal August 2013
A Unique Extraction of Metamaterial Parameters Based on Kramers–Kronig Relationship journal October 2010
Large-scale, 2D arrays of magnetic nanoparticles journal June 2003
Experimental Demonstration of Isotropic Negative Permeability in a Three-Dimensional Dielectric Composite journal July 2008
A double negative (DNG) composite medium composed of magnetodielectric spherical particles embedded in a matrix journal October 2003
Directional visible light scattering by silicon nanoparticles journal February 2013
Fabrication of Monolayer of Polymer/Nanospheres Hybrid at a Water-Air Interface journal January 2011
Mie resonance-based dielectric metamaterials journal December 2009
Improved deposition of large scale ordered nanosphere monolayers via liquid surface self-assembly journal December 2009
Optical magnetic mirrors without metals journal January 2014
Tailoring Directional Scattering through Magnetic and Electric Resonances in Subwavelength Silicon Nanodisks journal August 2013
Metamaterial mirrors in optoelectronic devices journal June 2014
Optical response features of Si-nanoparticle arrays journal July 2010
Infrared Reflectance and Emittance of Silver and Gold Evaporated in Ultrahigh Vacuum journal January 1965
Compact Dielectric Particles as a Building Block for Low-Loss Magnetic Metamaterials journal May 2008
Experimental demonstration of a broadband all-dielectric metamaterial perfect reflector journal April 2014
Perfect dielectric-metamaterial reflector journal October 2013
Gas-Flow-Induced Reorientation to Centimeter-Sized Two-Dimensional Colloidal Single Crystal of Polystyrene Particle journal March 2014
Realizing Optical Magnetism from Dielectric Metamaterials journal February 2012
Vertical spreading of two-dimensional crystalline colloidal arrays journal January 2013
Robust method to retrieve the constitutive effective parameters of metamaterials journal July 2004
Strong magnetic response of submicron Silicon particles in the infrared journal January 2011
Electromagnetic parameter retrieval from inhomogeneous metamaterials journal March 2005
Dielectric Metamaterials Based on Electric and Magnetic Resonances of Silicon Carbide Particles journal September 2007
Past achievements and future challenges in the development of three-dimensional photonic metamaterials journal July 2011
Nanosphere lithography based technique for fabrication of large area well ordered metal particle arrays conference March 2012

Cited By (70)

Enhanced absorption in all-dielectric metasurfaces due to magnetic dipole excitation other January 2019
Highly reflective subtractive color filters capitalizing on a silicon metasurface integrated with nanostructured aluminum mirrors: Highly reflective subtractive color filters capitalizing journal April 2017
Vacuum induced transparency in metamaterials journal January 2018
Optically resonant dielectric nanostructures journal November 2016
Investigation of terahertz all-dielectric metamaterials journal January 2019
Perfect absorbers based on dielectric optical mirrors and ultrathin absorptive films journal February 2020
Fabrication of Hybrid Nanostructures via Nanoscale Laser-Induced Reshaping for Advanced Light Manipulation journal February 2016
Enhanced absorption in all-dielectric metasurfaces due to magnetic dipole excitation journal March 2019
Dielectric metasurface based high-efficiency polarization splitters journal January 2017
Near-infrared photodetection with plasmon-induced hot electrons using silicon nanopillar array structure journal December 2018
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Based on a Silver-Film Semi-Coated Nanosphere Array journal September 2019
Magnetic mirror by exciting magnetic quadrupole in dielectric metasurface journal October 2019
Designing Multipolar Resonances in Dielectric Metamaterials journal December 2016
Harnessing magnetic dipole resonance in novel dielectric nanomaterials journal January 2018
Near‐Unity and Narrowband Thermal Emissivity in Balanced Dielectric Metasurfaces journal December 2019
Metasurface polarization splitter
  • Slovick, Brian A.; Zhou, You; Yu, Zhi Gang
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 375, Issue 2090 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0072
journal March 2017
Reflection compensation mediated by electric and magnetic resonances of all-dielectric metasurfaces [Invited] journal January 2017
The Design of Optical Circuit-Analog Absorbers through Electrically Small Nanoparticles journal March 2019
Metasurfaces-Based Absorption and Reflection Control: Perfect Absorbers and Reflectors journal January 2017
Silica nanocone array as a template for fabricating a plasmon induced hot electron photodetector journal January 2019
Generalized Kerker effects in nanophotonics and meta-optics [Invited] journal January 2018
Tunable perfect magnetic mirrors and retroreflectors in terahertz band journal January 2020
Water-injected all-dielectric ultra-wideband and prominent oblique incidence metamaterial absorber in microwave regime journal August 2017
Fundamentals and Applications of Metasurfaces journal March 2017
Polarization control of high transmission/reflection switching by all-dielectric metasurfaces journal February 2018
Material platforms for optical metasurfaces journal June 2018
Negative index and mode coupling in all-dielectric metamaterials at terahertz frequencies journal January 2018
High reflectivity metamaterial of close-packed dielectric spheres journal February 2018
Experimental demonstration of ultra-large-scale terahertz all-dielectric metamaterials journal January 2019
Light Management with Patterned Micro‐ and Nanostructure Arrays for Photocatalysis, Photovoltaics, and Optoelectronic and Optical Devices journal April 2019
Generalized Magnetic Mirrors journal September 2017
All-Dielectric Metasurfaces with High-Fluorescence-Enhancing Capability journal August 2018
Broadband terahertz reflector through electric and magnetic resonances by all dielectric cylinder microstructure journal February 2019
Pairing Toroidal and Magnetic Dipole Resonances in Elliptic Dielectric Rod Metasurfaces for Reconfigurable Wavefront Manipulation in Reflection journal September 2018
Tunable optical meta-surface using graphene-coated spherical nanoparticles journal July 2019
Scalable, Highly Uniform, and Robust Colloidal Mie Resonators for All‐Dielectric Soft Meta‐Optics journal December 2018
Optically reconfigurable metasurfaces and photonic devices based on phase change materials journal December 2015
Nanophotonic control of thermal radiation for energy applications [Invited] journal January 2018
Generalized Brewster effect in high-refractive-index nanorod-based metasurfaces journal January 2018
High permittivity processed SrTiO3 for metamaterials applications at terahertz frequencies journal October 2018
Recent advances in planar optics: from plasmonic to dielectric metasurfaces journal January 2017
All-dielectric nanophotonics: the quest for better materials and fabrication techniques journal January 2017
Metamaterial-inspired silicon nanophotonics journal April 2017
Enabling silicon-on-silicon photonics with pedestalled Mie resonators journal January 2018
Generalized Brewster effect in dielectric metasurfaces journal January 2016
Narrow Fano resonances in Si nanocylinder metasurfaces: Refractive index sensing journal May 2019
Resonant dielectric nanostructures: a low-loss platform for functional nanophotonics journal September 2016
Wideband dielectric metamaterial reflectors: Mie scattering or leaky Bloch mode resonance? journal January 2018
Self-adjusted all-dielectric metasurfaces for deep ultraviolet femtosecond pulse generation journal January 2016
Unidirectional light scattering by electric dipoles induced in plasmonic nanoparticles journal January 2019
Engineering metamaterial absorbers from dense gold nanoparticle stacks journal September 2017
Thermal conductivity reduction by acoustic Mie resonance in nanoparticles journal November 2018
Ordered Hybrid Micro/Nanostructures and Their Optical Applications journal January 2019
All-dielectric metamaterials journal January 2016
Large area metalenses: design, characterization, and mass manufacturing journal January 2018
A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications journal June 2016
Homogenization Near Resonances and Artificial Magnetism in Three Dimensional Dielectric Metamaterials journal June 2017
A Gaussian reflective metasurface for advanced wavefront manipulation journal January 2019
Ultracompact, high-resolution and continuous grayscale image display based on resonant dielectric metasurfaces journal January 2019
Computational complex optical field imaging using a designed metasurface diffuser journal January 2018
All-dielectric meta-optics and non-linear nanophotonics journal January 2018
Analogue of the Kerker effect for localized modes of discrete high-index dielectric nanowaveguides journal March 2019
Recent advances in high refractive index dielectric nanoantennas: Basics and applications journal April 2019
Negative index and mode coupling in all-dielectric metamaterials at terahertz frequencies conference September 2015
Fabrication of Hybrid Nanostructures via Nanoscale Laser-Induced Reshaping for Advanced Light Manipulation preprint January 2016
A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications text January 2016
Metasurface polarization splitter text January 2016
All-dielectric nanophotonics: the quest for better materials and fabrication techniques preprint January 2017
Generalized magnetic mirrors text January 2017
Thermal conductivity reduction by acoustic Mie resonance in nanoparticles text January 2018