Switching nonlinearity in a superconductor-enhanced metamaterial
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2012

We demonstrate a nonlinear metamaterial that can be switched between low and high transmission by controlling the power level of the incident beam. The origin of this nonlinear response is the superconducting Nb thin film employed in the metamaterial structure. We show that with moderate RF power of about 22 dBm it is possible to quench the superconducting state as a result of extremely strong current densities at the corners of the metamaterial's split-ring resonators. We measure a transmission contrast of 10 dB and a change in group delay of 70 ns between the low and high power states.

superconductor

nonlinearity

metamaterials

nonlinear metamaterial

Författare

Cihan Kurter

University of Maryland

Philippe Tassin

Vrije Universiteit Brüssel (VUB)

Iowa State University

Alexander P. Zhuravel

National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine

Lei Zhang

Iowa State University

Thomas Koschny

Iowa State University

Alexey V. Ustinov

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Costas M. Soukoulis

Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL)

Iowa State University

Steven M. Anlage

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

University of Maryland

Applied Physics Letters

0003-6951 (ISSN) 1077-3118 (eISSN)

Vol. 100 12 121906-

Styrkeområden

Nanovetenskap och nanoteknik (SO 2010-2017, EI 2018-)

Ämneskategorier

Atom- och molekylfysik och optik

Annan elektroteknik och elektronik

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

DOI

10.1063/1.3696297

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