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New Twists of 3D Chiral Metamaterials
Author(s) -
FernandezCorbaton I.,
Rockstuhl C.,
Ziemke P.,
Gumbsch P.,
Albiez A.,
Schwaiger R.,
Frenzel T.,
Kadic M.,
Wegener M.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201807742
Subject(s) - metamaterial , materials science , photonic metamaterial , field (mathematics) , optical materials , nanotechnology , theoretical physics , optoelectronics , physics , mathematics , pure mathematics
Rationally designed artificial materials, called metamaterials, allow for tailoring effective material properties beyond (“meta”) the properties of their bulk ingredient materials. This statement is especially true for chiral metamaterials, as unlocking certain degrees of freedom necessarily requires broken centrosymmetry. While the field of chiral electromagnetic/optical metamaterials has become rather mature, the field of elastic/mechanical metamaterials is just emerging and wide open. This research news reviews recent theoretical and experimental progress concerning 3D chiral mechanical and optical metamaterials, with special emphasis on work performed at KIT.