Effectiveness of Thin Films in Lieu of Hyperbolic Metamaterials in the Near Field
We show that the near-field functionality of hyperbolic metamaterials (HMM), typically proposed for increasing the photonic local density of states (LDOS), can be achieved with thin metal films. Although HMMs have an infinite density of internally propagating plane-wave states, the external coupling...
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| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society,
2014-05-01T17:08:42Z.
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