Output details
13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Southampton
Metamaterial with negative index due to chirality
Significance of output:
This is the first paper reporting a material with a negative refractive index due to chirality and thus it marks the beginning of experimental work in this new field. It also reported the largest optical activity of any material at the time. It was picked as Physical Review B “editor’s suggestion”, highlighted by Physics (doi: 10.1103/Physics.2.3) and Nature Photonics (doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.10), and led to the first author’s Leverhulme fellowship. It also inspired further studies by several major metamaterial groups at Iowa State University (Costas Soukoulis), Bilkent University (Ekmel Ozbay) and KIT (Martin Wegener, Stefan Linden) leading to further major publications.
