Metamaterials-based Salisbury screens with reduced angular sensitivity

Abstract

We demonstrate that the incorporation of nonlocal nanowire metamaterials into Salisbury screens allows for a substantial reduction of the dependence of incident angle on the absorption maximum. Realizations of angle-independent Salisbury screens for the near-IR, mid-IR, and GHz frequencies are proposed and their performances are analyzed analytically and numerically. It is shown that nonlocal effective medium theory adequately describes the angular dependence of nanowire-based Salisbury screens.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 20, 2014
Source ID
10.1063/1.4899131

Entities

People

  • Brian Wells
  • Christopher M. Roberts
  • Viktor A. Podolskiy

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • National Science Foundation
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

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  • Microelectronics