Highly Subwavelength, Superdirective Cylindrical Nanoantenna

Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Physical Review Letters, 2018, 120 (23)
Issue Date:
2018-06-06
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© 2018 American Physical Society. A superdirective cylindrical nanoantenna is demonstrated with a multilayered cylindrical metamaterial-inspired structure. Targeting specific scattering coefficients for the dipole and higher-order modes, the ideal limit of needle radiation is demonstrated. A five-layer system is optimized to demonstrate its approach to the theoretical directivity bound. While the resulting structure is scalable to any frequency regime, its highly subwavelength overall size (λ0/10) takes advantage of combinations of positive and negative permittivity materials in the optical regime.
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