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Transient and Flexible Hyperbolic Metamaterials on Freeform Surfaces

Transient technology is deemed as a paramount breakthrough for its particular functionality that can be implemented at a specific time and then totally dissolved. Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) with high wave-vector modes for negative refraction or with high photonic density of states to robustly e...

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Autores principales: Lin, Hung-I, Shen, Kun-Ching, Lin, Shih-Yao, Haider, Golam, Li, Yao-Hsuan, Chang, Shu-Wei, Chen, Yang-Fang
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29930247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27812-4
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author Lin, Hung-I
Shen, Kun-Ching
Lin, Shih-Yao
Haider, Golam
Li, Yao-Hsuan
Chang, Shu-Wei
Chen, Yang-Fang
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Shen, Kun-Ching
Lin, Shih-Yao
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description Transient technology is deemed as a paramount breakthrough for its particular functionality that can be implemented at a specific time and then totally dissolved. Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) with high wave-vector modes for negative refraction or with high photonic density of states to robustly enhance the quantum transformation efficiency represent one of the emerging key elements for generating not-yet realized optoelectronics devices. However, HMMs has not been explored for implementing in transient technology. Here we show the first attempt to integrate transient technology with HMMs, i.e., transient HMMs, composed of multilayers of water-soluble and bio-compatible polymer and metal. We demonstrate that our newly designed transient HMMs can also possess high-k modes and high photonic density of states, which enables to dramatically enhance the light emitter covered on top of HMMs. We show that these transient HMMs devices loss their functionalities after immersing into deionized water within 5 min. Moreover, when the transient HMMs are integrated with a flexible substrate, the device exhibits an excellent mechanical stability for more than 3000 bending cycles. We anticipate that the transient HMMs developed here can serve as a versatile platform to advance transient technology for a wide range of application, including solid state lighting, optical communication, and wearable optoelectronic devices, etc.
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spelling pubmed-60134752018-06-27 Transient and Flexible Hyperbolic Metamaterials on Freeform Surfaces Lin, Hung-I Shen, Kun-Ching Lin, Shih-Yao Haider, Golam Li, Yao-Hsuan Chang, Shu-Wei Chen, Yang-Fang Sci Rep Article Transient technology is deemed as a paramount breakthrough for its particular functionality that can be implemented at a specific time and then totally dissolved. Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) with high wave-vector modes for negative refraction or with high photonic density of states to robustly enhance the quantum transformation efficiency represent one of the emerging key elements for generating not-yet realized optoelectronics devices. However, HMMs has not been explored for implementing in transient technology. Here we show the first attempt to integrate transient technology with HMMs, i.e., transient HMMs, composed of multilayers of water-soluble and bio-compatible polymer and metal. We demonstrate that our newly designed transient HMMs can also possess high-k modes and high photonic density of states, which enables to dramatically enhance the light emitter covered on top of HMMs. We show that these transient HMMs devices loss their functionalities after immersing into deionized water within 5 min. Moreover, when the transient HMMs are integrated with a flexible substrate, the device exhibits an excellent mechanical stability for more than 3000 bending cycles. We anticipate that the transient HMMs developed here can serve as a versatile platform to advance transient technology for a wide range of application, including solid state lighting, optical communication, and wearable optoelectronic devices, etc. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6013475/ /pubmed/29930247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27812-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Transient and Flexible Hyperbolic Metamaterials on Freeform Surfaces
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013475/
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