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The enhancement of optical characteristics at optical frequencies deviates with the choice of the arrangement of core-shell nanoparticles and their environment. Likewise, the arrangements of core-shell nanoparticles in the air over a substrate or in liquid solution makes them unstable in the atmosphere. This article suggests designing a configuration of an active spherical coated nanoparticle antenna and its extended array in the presence of a passive dielectric, which is proposed to be extendable to construct larger arrays. The issue of instability in the core-shell nanoantenna array models is solved here by inserting the passive dielectric. In addition to this, the inclusion of a dielectric in the array model reports a different directivity behaviour than the conventional array models. We found at first that the combination model of the active coated nanoparticle and passive sphere at the resonant frequency can excite a stronger field with a rotated polarization direction and a propagation direction different from the incident plane-wave. Furthermore, the extended 2D array also rotates the polarization direction and propagation direction for the vertical incident plane-wave. The radiation beam operates strong multipoles in the 2D array plane at resonant frequency (behaving non-conventionally). Nevertheless, it forms a clear main beam in the incident direction when it deviates from the resonance frequency (behaving conventionally). The proposed array model may have possible applications in nano-amplifiers, nano-sensors and other integrated optics.

We proposed an IR absorber hybrid nanoantenna comprise of two overlapping gold nanoparticles residing over larger a silica nanoparticle. A wet chemical route was employed to prepare the hybrid structure of nanoantenna. High-resolution transmission electron microscope was used to measure the size and morphology of the nanoantenna. The Hybrid nanoantenna was excited by electron beam to investigate the optical response over a large wavelength range using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy. The beam of the electron was focused and we measured the electron energy loss spectra at different point of interest, which confirmed the of Low Energy Surface Plasmon Politron resonances in the IR region. The optical response of the nanoantenna was simulated numerically by employing Electric Hertzian dipole using finite element method with frequency domain solver in CST Microwave Studio. We used the Electric Hertzian dipole approach for the first time to model the Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy experiment. The Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy experimental results with their numerically simulated values confirmed the plasmonic resonance at the interface of the two overlapped gold nanoparticles.

We present experimentally a double-arrow metasurface for high-efficiently manipulating the polarization states of electromagnetic waves in the dual-band. The metasurface is capable of converting a linearly polarized (LP) incident wave into a circularly polarized (CP) wave or its cross-polarized LP wave at different frequencies. It is numerically shown that in the two bands from 14.08 to 15.71 GHz and from 17.63 to 19.55 GHz the metasurface can convert the LP wave into CP wave, of which the axis ratio is lower than 3 dB. Meanwhile, the proposed metasurface also can convert the LP wave into its cross-polarized LP wave at 13.39 GHz and 20.29 GHz. To validate the theoretical analysis and simulated results, a prototype is fabricated and measured. The experimental results are reasonably consistent with the theoretical and simulated results, which demonstrates that such a metasurface can successfully achieve dual-band and dual-mode polarization conversion.

This article reports the finding of the plasmonic induced polarization rotation and propagation rotation when the plane EM wave radiates the adjacent active coated nano particle and large dielectric sphere at resonant frequency. The results investigate that the incident electromagnetic planewave excites the TM 21 mode in the large size dielectric sphere at first, which affects the TM 11 mode field from the coated nano particle. Consequently, when the combined active coated nano particle and large dielectric sphere are in resonant, the main E-field polarization direction becomes parallel to the propagation direction of the original planewave and main beam of the pattern becomes omnidirectional i.e. both rotates by 90°. Furthermore, the polarization and propagation rotation angle varies with different size of the dielectric sphere. Likewise, the structure of dielectric sphere clamped by two active nanoparticles is also showing plasmonic induced polarization and propagation rotation along with TM 11 mode from each coated nano particle (CNP) having 180° phase difference. In addition to this, the induced polarization rotation was also verified by the Electric Hertzian Dipole (EHD). The integration of this simpler geometry with other optical devices has possible applications in polarization manipulation, nano-sensors and detectors on nanoscale.

A subwavelength water metamaterial is proposed and analyzed for ultra-broadband perfect absorption at microwave frequencies. We experimentally demonstrate that this metamaterial shows over 90% absorption within almost the entire frequency band of 12-29.6 GHz. It is also shown that the proposed metamaterial exhibits a good thermal stability with its absorption performance almost unchanged for the temperature range from 0 to 100°C. The study of the angular tolerance of the metamaterial absorber shows its ability of working at wide angles of incidence. Given that the proposed water metamaterial absorber is low-cost and easy for manufacture, we envision it may find numerous applications in electromagnetics such as broadband scattering reduction and electromagnetic energy harvesting.

We design an ultrathin water-based metasurface capable of coherent perfect absorption (CPA) at radio frequencies. It is demonstrated that such a metasurface can almost completely absorb two symmetrically incident waves within four frequency bands, each having its own modulation depth of metasurface absorptivity. Specifically, the absorptivity at 557.2 MHz can be changed between 0.59% and 99.99% via the adjustment of the phase difference between the waves. The high angular tolerance of our metasurface is shown to enable strong CPA at oblique incidence, with the CPA frequency almost independent of the incident angle for TE waves and varying from 557.2 up to 584.2 MHz for TM waves. One can also reduce this frequency from 712.0 to 493.3 MHz while retaining strong coherent absorption by varying the water layer thickness. It is also show that the coherent absorption performance can be flexibly controlled by adjusting the temperature of water. The proposed metasurface is low-cost, biocompatible, and useful for electromagnetic modulation and switching.

We design a new kind of metamaterial absorber in the form of an ultrathin silicon nanostructure capable of having wideband absorption of visible light. We show that our metamaterial can exhibit almost perfect absorption of incident light even though its thickness is several tens of times smaller than the optical wavelength. The combination of two resonant modes in a single nanostructure allows us to achieve absorptivities exceeding 80% in a wide band spanning from 437.9 to 578.3 nm. The physical origins of the two modes, elucidated via the analysis of current distribution inside the nanostructure, explain different metamaterial absorptivities for oblique incidence of TE- and TM-polarized waves. Our study opens a new prospect in designing ultrathin, yet wideband visible-light absorbers based on silicon.