Nanostructured hyperbolic metamaterials: physics and devices

纳米技术为人工材料铺平了道路，这些材料具有超出自然界中通常发现的电磁，机械，热和声学特性。根据许多已发表的技术路线图，合并光子学和纳米技术有希望：-迎来新一代的成像设备的生物医学应用，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迫切社会需求。这项研究提案的中心主题是理解基于纳米制造超材料的新光子器件的基本物理学，根据组成的纳米结构构建块，大块宏观材料的特性可以随意控制和定制。

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.