Special Issue "Next Wave of Metamaterials"

Metamaterials (MMs) are rationally designed artificial materials built of subwavelength unit cells engineered to act as artificial atoms exhibiting properties beyond those found in nature. MMs can be tailored to fit almost any practical need and to achieve functionalities that can not be obtained with “natural” materials. Recent progress in design and nanofabrication of MMs allows unprecedented control over the flow of light at both the nano- and macroscopic scales paving the way to many exciting applications with unprecedented functionalities such as subwavelength imaging and manipulation, optical nanoantennas, superlenses, optical invisibility cloaking, hyperlenses, and light concentrators. MMs also enable the innovative field of Transformation Optics that inspires researchers to take a fresh look at the very foundations of optics and create a new paradigm for the science of light. Transformation optics shows that the space for light can be designed and engineered using metamaterials, opening the fascinating possibility of controlling light flow with nanometer spatial precision.
In this special issue we aim at covering recent progress and novel trends in the fields of metamaterials and transformation optics and invite experimental, theoretical, and computational papers ranging from the basic research and new design ideas to the development of advanced fabrication techniques, characterization methods and applications of metamaterials.

Dr. Alexandra Boltasseva
Guest Editor

Submission

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