Dielectric Nanoantennas and Metasurfaces

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Dear Colleagues,

Dielectric nanoantennas have recently gained a lot of attention in many research areas, including sensing, solar cells, spectroscopy, and microscopy. The capability to excite either electric and magnetic multipolar resonances gives the possibility to shape the scattered light from such high-refractive-index structures in a desired manner. Moreover, they constitute the building blocks of the so-called metasurfaces.

Optical metasurfaces are 2D arrays of subwavelength scatterers designed to control properties of light ranging from its wavefront to polarization and intensity distribution or spectrum. The subwavelength resonators capture and re-emit the incident light. An appropriate geometrical choice of the dielectric nanoantennas that form the metasurface and of their mutual distance leads to the modification of the characteristics of light scattered from the 2D array. Thus, metasurfaces are attractive solutions in the miniaturization of bulk devices such as gratings, lenses, mirrors, holograms, waveplates, polarizers, and spectral filters.

Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles that focus on novel dielectric nanoantennas, Mie resonators, reconfigurable metasurfaces, nonlinear optical phenomena, and new fabrication and characterization techniques.

I look forward to receiving your submissions! 

Dr. Davide Rocco
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Keywords

  • nanoantennas
  • metasurfaces
  • metamaterials
  • Mie resonators

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A Multiband Antenna Stacked with Novel Metamaterial SCSRR and CSSRR for WiMAX/WLAN Applications
by Rajiv Mohan David, Mohammad Saadh AW, Tanweer Ali and Pradeep Kumar
Micromachines 2021, 12(2), 113; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12020113 - 22 Jan 2021
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This paper presents an innovative method for the design of a triple band meta-mode antenna. This unique design of antenna finds application in a particular frequency band of WLAN and WiMAX. This antenna comprises of a square complimentary split ring resonator (SCSRR), a [...] Read more.
This paper presents an innovative method for the design of a triple band meta-mode antenna. This unique design of antenna finds application in a particular frequency band of WLAN and WiMAX. This antenna comprises of a square complimentary split ring resonator (SCSRR), a coaxial feed, and two symmetrical comb shaped split ring resonators (CSSRR). The metamaterial unit cell SCSRR independently gains control in the band range 3.15–3.25 GHz (WiMAX), whereas two symmetrical CSSRR unit cell controls the band in the ranges 3.91–4.01 GHz and 5.79–5.94 GHz (WLAN). This design methodology and the study of the suggested unit cells structure are reviewed in classical waveguide medium theory. The antenna has a miniaturized size of only 0.213λ0 × 0.192λ0 × 0.0271λ0 (20 × 18 × 2.54 mm3, where λ0 is the free space wavelength at 3.2 GHz). The detailed dimension analysis of the proposed antenna and its radiation efficiency are also presented in this paper. All the necessary simulations are carried out in High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) 13.0 tool. Full article
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