NSF Materials World Network: Classical and Quantum Optical Metamaterials by Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Fabrication Techniques

NSF 材料世界网络：结合自上而下和自下而上制造技术的经典和量子光学超材料

• 批准号: EP/J018473/1
• 负责人: Shuang Zhang
• 金额: $ 71.58万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FJ018473%2F1
• 关键词: NSF; Materials; World; Network; Classical

This Materials World Network Program proposes an international research platform between US and UK into new regime of classical and quantum metamaterials, which brings together our strong expertise in advanced nanofabrication, optical characterization, and physics-based analysis to design and realize the unprecedented optical properties of metamaterials. The scale-down of metamaterials to optical frequencies paved the way for a new class of metamaterials with a profound impact on a broad range of applications in telecommunication, optical imaging, energy harvesting, health care, and homeland security. However, the key breakthrough in the field of optical metamaterials is hindered by: (1) the lack of capability of current top-down fabrication techniques to engineer structures at a few nanometers scale; (2) lack of long range ordering due to the bottom-up nanofabrication approaches; (3) optical loss in the metal-based optical metamaterials; and (4) lack of optical control at low photon levels in optical metamaterials. In this project, we aim to overcome these critical challenges by combining top-down and bottom-up nanofabrication techniques for the manufacturing of optical metamaterials, and by extending metamaterials to the quantum regime to reduce the loss and to introduce novel optical control schemes that go beyond classical metamaterials. This program combines synergistically three collaborators, one in the US and two in the UK, with an established records of collaboration to investigate the fabrication, characterization, and physics-based modeling of novel optical metamaterials. The central rationale for this collaborative program is that it integrates a UK group's strong expertise in large scale nanofabrication and another strong UK group's theoretical and computational capabilities in metamaterials and nonlinear optics, with a US group with demonstrated records of various optical characterisation techniques. To ensure close collaborations, we plan to use weekly internet based video-conferencing (Skype, etc.), semiannual workshops that bring the whole team together in conjunction of MRS or E-MRS meetings as well as frequent visits among researchers.

该材料世界网络计划提出了美国与英国之间的国际研究平台，以实现新的古典和量子超材料制度，该制度汇集了我们在先进的纳米纳法制作，光学特征和基于物理学的分析方面的强大专业知识，以设计并实现前所未有的光学特性。超材料。超材料到光学频率的规模为新的超材料铺平了道路，对电信，光学成像，能源收集，保健和国土安全的广泛应用产生了深远的影响。但是，光学超材料领域的关键突破受到以下阻碍：（1）当前自上而下的制造技术缺乏以几纳米尺度为工程师结构的能力； （2）由于自下而上的纳米化方法，缺乏远程排序； （3）基于金属的光学超材料的光损失； （4）光学超材料中低光子水平的光控制缺乏。在该项目中，我们的目标是通过结合自上而下和自下而上的纳米制造技术来克服这些关键挑战，以制造光学超材料的制造，并将超材料扩展到量子制度，以减少损失并引入新的光学控制方案，并采用新颖的光学控制方案超越了古典超材料。该计划结合了三个合作者，一个在美国，两家合作者，以及既定的合作记录，以调查基于新型光学超材料的基于物理的制造，表征和物理建模。该协作计划的主要理由是，它将英国集团在大规模纳米制作方面的强大专业知识以及英国集团在超材料和非线性光学方面的理论和计算能力进行了强大的专业知识，并与美国集团一起展示了各种光学特性技术的记录。为了确保密切的合作，我们计划使用每周基于Internet的视频会议（Skype等），半年度研讨会，这些研讨会使整个团队结合在一起，以MRS或E-MRS会议的结合以及研究人员之间的频繁访问。

项目成果

Geometric metasurface fork gratings for vortex-beam generation and manipulation

• DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201500259
• 发表时间: 2016-03-01
• 期刊: LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
• 影响因子: 11
• 作者: Chen, Shumei;Cai, Yuan;Cheah, Kok Wai
• 通讯作者: Cheah, Kok Wai

Optically and electrically tunable Dirac points and Zitterbewegung in graphene-based photonic superlattices

石墨烯基光子超晶格中的光学和电学可调狄拉克点和 Zitterbewegung

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.91.201402
• 发表时间: 2015-04
• 期刊: Physical Review B
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Deng Hanying;Ye Fangwei;Chen Xianfeng;Deng Hanying;Ye Fangwei;Chen Xianfeng;Malomed Boris A.;Panoiu Nicolae C.;Deng HY
• 通讯作者: Deng HY

Third Harmonic Generation Enhanced by Multipolar Interference in Complementary Silicon Metasurfaces

互补硅超表面中多极干扰增强的三次谐波产生

• DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01423
• 发表时间: 2018-05-01
• 期刊: ACS PHOTONICS
• 影响因子: 7
• 作者: Chen, Shumei;Rahmani, Mohsen;Zhang, Shuang
• 通讯作者: Zhang, Shuang

Experimental observation of photonic nodal line degeneracies in metacrystals.

• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03407-5
• 发表时间: 2018-03-05
• 期刊: Nature communications
• 影响因子: 16.6
• 作者: Gao W;Yang B;Tremain B;Liu H;Guo Q;Xia L;Hibbins AP;Zhang S
• 通讯作者: Zhang S

Photonic Weyl degeneracies in magnetized plasma.

• DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12435
• 发表时间: 2016-08-10
• 期刊: Nature communications
• 影响因子: 16.6
• 作者: Gao W;Yang B;Lawrence M;Fang F;Béri B;Zhang S
• 通讯作者: Zhang S