Advanced Metamaterials and Their Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A:Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2024) | Viewed by 205
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metamaterials are artificially engineered composites with unusual effective material parameters and exceptional functionalities that directly result from their microarchitecture. Over the past decade, metamaterials have been applied in various physical fields, including optics, acoustics, materials science, mechanics, and plasmonics, and enabled fascinating phenomena, like invisibility cloaking, beam steering, programmable behaviors, topological insulators, and metalens imaging. Today, metamaterials are receiving increasing attention from the academic and engineering communities due to their extraordinary or extreme electromagnetic, elastic, thermal, structural, mechanical, and dynamic properties, which are in high demand for many applications, e.g., energy harvesting, sensors, noise reduction and acoustic nondestructive testing, biomedicine, medical ultrasound imaging, the automotive industry, aerospace, communication, and signal processing. The recent development of metamaterials has strongly benefitted from rapid progress in computational techniques and manufacturing technologies. This has enabled more powerful approaches to the rational design and advanced fabrication of metamaterials, leading to an explosive growth of research on their design, simulation, fabrication, and characterization. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles that focus on state-of-the-art methodologies, designs, fabrication approaches, and applications of various metamaterials.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Jin-Chen Hsu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photonic crystals
- phononic crystals
- optical metamaterials
- acoustic metamaterials
- elastic metamaterials
- topological metamaterials
- mechanical metamaterials
- metasurfaces
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