...Front Matter Hybrid Flatland Metastructures is a comprehensive reference covering the latest developments in the field of metamaterials. It addresses fundamental concepts, physical considerations, and state-of-the-art applications. Topics covered in this book are carefully selected...

...Introduction Hybrid Flatland Metastructures is a comprehensive reference covering the latest developments in the field of metamaterials. It addresses fundamental concepts, physical considerations, and state-of-the-art applications. Topics covered in this book are carefully selected...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials X-ray diffraction Geometric phases Lenses Antennas Introduction Since the disruptive and celebrated work by Veselago (1968) showing the possibility to radically modify the way physics and, in particular, optics were conceived until that time, research has...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Drude model Graphene Diode Electro-optics Electrooptical devices Introduction It is broadly reported in this book that light–matter interaction is usually studied by introducing a noticeable optical property of matter that goes by the name of dielectric...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Magnetism Self assembly Convex geometry Nanoclusters Introduction Magnetic effects are notoriously negligible in natural materials at optical frequencies ( Landau and Lifshitz, 1960 ). This paradigm was revisited in the last two decades with the emergence...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Multipole expansion Light scattering Nano optics Plasmonics Plasmas Toroidal Photonics Toroidal moments Since the times of Gustav Mie and his pioneering work ( Mie, 1908 ), the study of electromagnetic (EM) scattering has always been an active research field...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Subwavelength lithography Color detection Mathematical optimization Optimization algorithms Artificial intelligence Artificial neural networks Introduction The generation of structural colors is currently the subject of a significant amount of research work...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Multiphoton lithography Fluorescence Dielectric devices Introduction In Chaps. 1 and 2, the theoretical basis of metamaterials and some examples of applications were presented. Due to their extraordinary and tunable properties, the fabrication of 3D...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Waveguides Photopolymerisation Wave mechanics Quantum optics Purcell factor Plasmons Introduction The requirement of faster bit rates (number of bits conveyed or processed per unit of time) in telecommunications and computing recently brought much attention...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Lenses Multiphoton lithography Nano optics Introduction Hybrid metastructures present peculiar optical functionalities that are extremely appealing in applied nanomaterials science. Especially intriguing is their ability to modify transmitted or reflected colors...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Liquid crystals Soft matter Plasmonics Nanotechnology applications Introduction Liquid crystals (LCs) behave as anisotropic fluids that self-assemble into vector fields governed by spatial and topological laws ( Dąbrowski et al., 2017 ; Zografopoulos...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Plasmonics Nanotechnology applications Introduction In recent years, the control of temperature at the nanoscale has emerged as a promising yet reliable possibility due to the availability of a variety of thermoresponsive materials ( Cheng et al., 2014...

...Hybrid materials Metamaterials Chirality Biosensors Physical optics Introduction Dielectric and plasmonic metastructures have revolutionized several technological realms thanks to their intrinsic potential due to their low dimensionality and size ( Yu and Capasso, 2014 ; and Kamali et al...

...Index Hybrid Flatland Metastructures is a comprehensive reference covering the latest developments in the field of metamaterials. It addresses fundamental concepts, physical considerations, and state-of-the-art applications. Topics covered in this book are carefully selected to be both...