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Dielectric Singularities in Hyperbolic Metamaterials

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In this chapter, a special propagation regime is described, occurring in particular HMMs with extreme parameters. These HMMs are designed to manifest a vanishing effective permittivity in the direction parallel to their surface plane while an ideally infinite one in the perpendicular direction. Such a unique feature allows the HMM to behave as a perfect near-field lens.

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  1. School of Physical and Mathematical Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Sreekanth K. V. & Ranjan Singh

  2. Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Mohamed ElKabbash

  3. Nanochemistry Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Vincenzo Caligiuri

  4. Department of Physics, Universita Della Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

    Antonio De Luca

  5. Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Giuseppe Strangi

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K. V., S., ElKabbash, M., Caligiuri, V., Singh, R., De Luca, A., Strangi, G. (2019). Dielectric Singularities in Hyperbolic Metamaterials. In: New Directions in Thin Film Nanophotonics. Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, vol 6. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8891-0_5

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