Figure 1. Principles and applications of zero refractive index metamaterials. (IMAGE)

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Figure 1. Principles and applications of zero refractive index metamaterials.

Caption

(a) Ideal homogenous zero-index medium. (b) Zero-index medium’s applications in free-space cloak, arbitrarily shaped waveguide, and photonic crystal surface emitting laser. (c) Schematic of Dirac-cone based ZIM. (d) 3×3 conventional Dirac-cone based ZIM. (e) 5×5 conventional Dirac-cone based ZIM. (f) 11×11 highly homogeneous Dirac-cone based ZIM.

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by Yueyang Liu, Tian Dong, Xu Qin, Weijia Luo, Ning Leng, Yujing He, Yong Yuan, Ming Bai, Jingbo Sun, Ji Zhou, Yue Li, Yang Li

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