Subwavelength electromagnetics

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• 作者：Xiangang Luo
• 关键词：electromagnetics ; subwavelength scale ; metamaterials ; plasmonics ; photonic crystals
• 刊名：Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：9
• 期：2
• 页码：138-150
• 全文大小：4,904 KB
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• 作者单位：Xiangang Luo (1)
  
  1. State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
  
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Electronic and Computer Engineering
  Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers
  Biomedical Engineering
  Chinese Library of Science
  
• 出版者：Higher Education Press, co-published with Springer-Verlag GmbH
• ISSN：2095-2767

文摘

Subwavelength electromagnetics is a discipline that deals with light-matter interaction at subwavelength scale and innovative technologies that control electromagnetic waves with subwavelength structures. Although the history can be dated back to almost one hundred years ago, the flourish of these researching areas have been no more than 30 years. In this paper, we gave a brief review of the history, current status and future trends of subwavelength electromagnetics. In particular, the milestones related with metamaterials, plasmonics, metasurfaces and photonic crystals are highlighted.