Metamaterial-Enabled Transformation Optics by Nathan Landy Department of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University

Metamaterial is not a well-defined terminology. In fact, this terminology does not mean any specific material, but instead a new way of thinking. Usually this term means carefully engineered material structures composed of carefully designed inclusions that can exhibit unusual electromagnetic properties not inherent in the individual constituent components [1]. These properties include, for exa...

We review recent progress in developing a new class of specially designed optical metamaterial spaces with functionalities that cannot be obtained with conventional optics or natural materials. These optical metamaterial spaces could enable innovative paradigms of transformation optics pertinent to optical cloaking, sub-wavelength sensing, super-resolution imaging, magnifying hyperlenses, and l...

Since its inception in 2006, transformation optics has become an established tool to understand and design electromagnetic systems. It provides a geometrical perspective into the properties of light waves without the need for a ray approximation. Most studies have focused on modifying the trajectories of light rays, e.g. beam benders, lenses, invisibility cloaks, etc. In this contribution, we e...

Metamaterials and transformation optics play substantial roles in various branches of optical science and engineering by providing schemes to tailor electromagnetic fields into desired spatial patterns. We report a theoretical study showing that by designing and manipulating spatially inhomogeneous, nonuniform conductivity patterns across a flake of graphene, one can have this material as a one...