Nanostructured hyperbolic metamaterials: physics and devices

纳米技术为人造材料铺平了道路，这些材料具有电磁、机械、热学和声学性能，超出了通常在自然界中发现的材料。根据许多已发表的技术路线图，光子学和纳米技术的融合有望为生物医学应用带来新一代成像设备，推动纳米光子学研究以维持摩尔定律，甚至解决太阳能收集的紧迫社会需求。本研究计划的中心主题是理解基于纳米制造的超材料的新型光子器件的基本物理学，其中大块宏观材料的性质是根据组成纳米结构的构建块随意控制和定制的。

Nanotechnology has paved the way for artificial materials which have electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal and acoustic properties beyond those which are ordinarily found in nature. According to many published technological roadmaps, merging photonics and nanotechnologies holds the promise:- to usher in a new generation of imaging devices for biomedical applications, to drive nanophotonics research for sustaining Moore's law and even address pressing societal needs of solar energy harvesting. The central theme of this research proposal is the understanding of the essential physics for new photonic devices based on nanofabricated metamaterials, where the bulk macroscopic material properties are governed and tailored at will, according to the constituent nanostructured building blocks.