Enhanced interaction of electromagnetics and mechanics in structured media

Funding: 2015: $29,833
2016: $25,406
2017: $25,406

Project Member(s): Lapine, M.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery Projects)

Start year: 2015

Summary: This project will investigate the interaction between electromagnetic waves and mechanical motion in structured media. Enhancing this interaction will improve a number of modern technologies, such as nano-scaled motors, traps for biological samples and optical wrenches. Modern fabrication techniques will link the electromagnetic and mechanical properties of media, so that the electromagnetic forces will greatly increase, making such devices able to manipulate larger objects. Structured materials can also change their properties dynamically, enabling material properties to be altered in real time. This mechanism will form the basis of advanced tunable components to control waves at visible, infrared, terahertz and microwave wavelengths.

Publications:

Gorlach, MA, Dobrykh, DA, Slobozhanyuk, AP, Belov, PA & Lapine, M 2018, 'Nonlinear symmetry breaking in photometamaterials', Physical Review B, vol. 97, no. 11.
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Lapine, M 2017, 'New degrees of freedom in nonlinear metamaterials', physica status solidi (b), vol. 254, no. 4, pp. 1600462-1600462.
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Gorlach, MA, Voytova, TA, Lapine, M, Kivshar, YS & Belov, PA 2016, 'Nonlocal homogenization for nonlinear metamaterials', PHYSICAL REVIEW B, vol. 93, no. 16.
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Lapine, M, McPhedran, RC & Poulton, CG 2016, 'Slow convergence to effective medium in finite discrete metamaterials', Physical Review B, vol. 93, no. 23.
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Smith, MJA, Kuhlmey, BT, de Sterke, CM, Wolff, C, Lapine, M & Poulton, CG 2016, 'Metamaterial control of stimulated Brillouin scattering', Optics Letters, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 2338-2338.
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Smith, MJA, Wolff, C, de Sterke, CM, Lapine, M, Kuhlmey, BT & Poulton, CG 2016, 'Stimulated Brillouin scattering enhancement in silicon inverse opal waveguides', Optics Express, vol. 24, no. 22, pp. 25148-25148.
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Smith, MJA, Wolff, C, Martijn de Sterke, C, Lapine, M, Kuhlmey, BT & Poulton, CG 2016, 'Stimulated Brillouin scattering in metamaterials', Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 2162-2162.
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Smith, MJA, Kuhlmey, BT, de Sterke, CM, Wolff, C, Lapine, M & Poulton, CG 1970, 'Elastic modelling of electrostriction in dielectric composite materials', Photonics and Fiber Technology 2016 (ACOFT, BGPP, NP), Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, OSA, Sydney, Australia.
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Powell, DA, Liu, M & Lapine, M 2015, 'Coupled Electromagnetic and Elastic Dynamics in Metamaterials' in Shadrivov, IV, Lapine, M & Kivshar, YS (eds), Nonlinear, Tunable and Active Metamaterials, Springer International Publishing, Germany, pp. 59-87.
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Smith, MJA, Kuhlmey, BT, de Sterke, CM, Wolff, C, Lapine, M & Poulton, CG 2015, 'Electrostriction enhancement in metamaterials', Physical Review B, vol. 91, no. 21.
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Lapine, M, Jelinek, L & IEEE 1970, 'New aspects of artificial diamagnetics', 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC MATERIALS IN MICROWAVES AND OPTICS (METAMATERIALS 2015), International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS), IEEE, Oxford, UK, pp. 172-174.
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Lapine, M, Poulton, CG & McPhedran, RC 1970, 'Mesoscopic effects in discretised metamaterial spheres', SPIE Proceedings, SPIE Micro+Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications, SPIE, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 96680L-96680L.
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Keywords: metamaterials, electromagnetic waves, elastic waves, nonlinear processes, microwave, THz, optics.

FOR Codes: Electrostatics and Electrodynamics, Photonics and Electro-Optical Engineering (excl. Communications), Nanophotonics, Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences, Photonic and electro-optical devices, sensors and systems (excl. communications), Electrostatics and electrodynamics

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.