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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 143902 (2009) [4 pages]

All Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale

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Andrea Alù1,2 and Nader Engheta1,*
1Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd Street, ESE 203 Moore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, USA
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station ENS616, Austin, Texas 78712-0240, USA

Received 22 February 2009; revised 27 June 2009; published 29 September 2009

Optical nanocircuits may pave the way to transformative advancements in nanoscale communications. We introduce here the concept of an optical nanocircuit board, constituted of a layered metamaterial structure with low effective permittivity, over which specific traces that channel the optical displacement current may be carved out, allowing the optical “local connection” among “nonlocal” distant nanocircuit elements. This may provide “printed” nanocircuits, realizing an all-optical nanocircuit board over which specific grooves may be nanoimprinted within the realms of current nanotechnology.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.143902
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.143902
PACS:
42.70.−a, 07.50.Ek, 41.20.−q, 78.67.Bf

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

engheta@ee.upenn.edu

 
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