Nanostructured hyperbolic metamaterials: physics and devices

纳米技术为人造材料铺平了道路，这些材料具有超出自然界中常见特性的电磁、机械、热学和声学特性。根据许多已公布的技术路线图，将光子学和纳米技术融合在一起有希望：-为生物医学应用引入新一代成像设备，推动纳米光子学研究，以维持摩尔定律，甚至满足迫切的社会对太阳能收集的需求。这项研究建议的中心主题是理解基于纳米块状超材料的新型光子器件的基本物理原理，其中主体宏观材料属性根据组成的纳米结构构建块被随意管理和定制。

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.