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Part I Development and Applications of Metal/Dielectric Resonant Cavity-Based Thin Film Structures |
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1 Perfect Light Absorption in Thin and Ultra-Thin Films and Its Applications |
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3 | (1) |
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3 | (1) |
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1.2 Approaches to Realize Perfect Light Absorbers |
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4 | (2) |
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1.3 Lithography-Free Perfect Light Absorption in Critically Coupled, Interference Based, Thin and Ultrathin Films |
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6 | (3) |
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1.4 Designer Perfect Light Absorption in Thin Film Absorbers |
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9 | (6) |
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1.4.1 Designer Wavelength Range |
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9 | (2) |
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1.4.2 Designer Absorption Bandwidth |
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11 | (2) |
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1.4.3 Designer Profile of Optical Losses |
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13 | (1) |
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1.4.4 Designer Perfect Light Absorption Angle |
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14 | (1) |
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1.5 Iridescence Properties of Thin-Film Interference-Based Light Absorbers |
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15 | (2) |
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1.6 Thermally Induced Perfect Light Absorption in Low Reflectance Metals |
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17 | (4) |
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21 | (8) |
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1.7.1 Structural Colors Using Thin-Film Light Absorbers |
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21 | (2) |
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1.7.2 Hydrogen Gas Sensing Using Thin-Film Light Absorbers |
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23 | (2) |
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25 | (4) |
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2 Realization of Point-of-Darkness and Extreme Phase Singularity in Nanophotonic Cavities |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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2.2 Lithography-Free Nanophotonic Cavities |
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30 | (2) |
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2.3 Singular Phase at the Point-of-Darkness |
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32 | (3) |
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2.4 Phase-Sensitive Biosensing |
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35 | (3) |
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2.5 Microfluidics Integrated Cavities |
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38 | (2) |
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2.6 Real-Time Sensing of Small Biomolecules |
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40 | (5) |
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43 | (2) |
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3 Phase Change Material-Based Nanophotonic Cavities for Reconfigurable Photonic Device Applications |
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45 | (1) |
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3.1 Phase Change Material-Tuned Photonics |
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45 | (2) |
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3.2 Tunable Color Filters Based on Multilayer Stacks |
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47 | (2) |
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3.3 Tunable Perfect Absorption |
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49 | (2) |
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3.4 Tunable Singular Phase at the Point-of-Darkness |
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51 | (3) |
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3.5 Enhanced and Tunable Goos-Hanchen Shift at the Point-of-Darkness |
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54 | (5) |
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57 | (2) |
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4 Sub-wavelength Nanopatterning Using Thin Metal Films |
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59 | (1) |
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4.1 Laser Interference Lithography |
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59 | (1) |
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4.2 Evanescent Wave Interference Lithography |
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60 | (2) |
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4.3 Plasmonic Lithography |
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62 | (1) |
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4.4 Theoretical Analysis of Surface Plasmon Interference |
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63 | (6) |
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4.5 Numerical Analysis of Surface Plasmon Interference |
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69 | (2) |
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4.6 Nanopatterning Based on Multiple Beams Surface Plasmon Interference |
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71 | (10) |
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77 | (4) |
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Part II Development and Applications of Multilayered Hyperbolic Metamaterials |
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5 Dielectric Singularities in Hyperbolic Metamaterials |
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81 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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5.2 Effective Medium Theory and HMMs Dispersion Relation |
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82 | (4) |
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5.3 Design of the Epsilon-Near-Zero-and-Pole Condition |
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86 | (3) |
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5.4 Far-Field Analysis and Scattering Parameters of Ag/ITO ENZP HMM |
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89 | (2) |
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5.5 Light Propagation at the ENZP Wavelength and Supercollimation Effect |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (2) |
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5.7 Three Materials ENZP HMMs |
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95 | (8) |
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100 | (3) |
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6 Resonant Gain Singularities in Hyperbolic Metamaterials |
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103 | (1) |
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6.1 Resonant Gain Epsilon-Near-Zero and Pole Condition |
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103 | (2) |
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6.2 Design of the Gain Blend |
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105 | (4) |
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6.2.1 Step 1---Selecting a High Refractive Index Dielectric |
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105 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Step 2---Selecting a Dye with Emission Peaked at 426 nm |
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106 | (1) |
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6.2.3 Step 3---Calculating the Value of ε"d for Which ε" Shows a Pole at 426 nm |
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106 | (1) |
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6.2.4 Step 4 and 5---Calculation of the Concentration No of Dye Molecules and of the "Gain Blend" Effective Permittivity |
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107 | (2) |
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6.2.5 Step 6---Verifying the Presence of the "Resonant Gain Singularity" in ε" at the ENZP Wavelength |
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109 | (1) |
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6.3 Supercollimation and Light Amplification in the RG-HMM |
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109 | (3) |
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6.4 Self-Amplified Perfect Lens (APL) |
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112 | (5) |
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114 | (3) |
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7 Metal/Photoemissive-Blend Hyperbolic Metamaterials for Controlling the Topological Transition |
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117 | (1) |
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117 | (1) |
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7.2 Design, Fabrication and Characterization of the Thermo-Responsive Blend |
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118 | (4) |
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7.3 Design, Fabrication and Characterization of the HMM Embedding the Thermo-Responsive Blend |
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122 | (2) |
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7.4 Thermal Tunability of the Optical and Photophysical Response of the HMM |
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124 | (5) |
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128 | (1) |
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8 Guided Modes of Hyperbolic Metamaterial and Their Applications |
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129 | (1) |
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8.1 Guided Modes of Hyperbolic Metamaterials |
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129 | (1) |
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8.2 Excitation of Guided Modes of HMM |
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130 | (9) |
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8.2.1 Using Grating Coupling Technique |
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130 | (6) |
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8.2.2 Using Prism Coupling Technique |
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136 | (3) |
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8.3 Applications of Grating-Coupled HMMs |
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139 | (20) |
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8.3.1 Ultrasensitive Plasmonic Biosensing |
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139 | (7) |
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8.3.2 Spontaneous Emission Enhancement |
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146 | (5) |
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8.3.3 Multiband, Broad- and Narrow-Band Perfect Absorption and Absorption-Based Plasmonic Sensors |
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151 | (5) |
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156 | (3) |
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9 Graphene and Topological Insulator-Based Active THz Hyperbolic Metamaterials |
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159 | (1) |
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159 | (1) |
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9.2 Graphene-Based Hyperbolic Metamaterials |
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160 | (2) |
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9.3 Van der Waals Superlattice-Based Hyperbolic Metamaterials |
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162 | (1) |
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9.4 Negative Refraction in THz Hyperbolic Metamaterials |
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163 | (4) |
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9.4.1 Negative Refraction in Graphene-Based HMMs |
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164 | (1) |
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9.4.2 Negative Refraction in Topological Insulator-Based HMMs |
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165 | (2) |
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9.5 Excitation of BBP Modes of Graphene-Based HMMs |
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167 | (2) |
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9.6 Active Hyperbolic Metamaterials Based on Topological Insulator and Phase Change Material |
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