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Binary metal and semiconductor quantum dot metamaterials with negative optical dielectric constant and compensated loss for small volume waveguides, modulators and switches

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We study numerically and analytically a binary mixture of quantum dots exhibiting gain and loss. For a mixture of gain quantum dots and silver nanoparticles, we find conditions when the composite shows negative dielectric constant operation and lossless operation. The composites of this kind may be used for dense integration of photonic components as well as modulation and switching in optical interconnect systems

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  1. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Ekaterina Ponizovskaya, Lars Thylen & Alexander Bratkovsky

  2. Department of Theoretical Chemistry, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ying Fu

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Correspondence to Alexander Bratkovsky.

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L. Thylen is also at Dept of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 164 40 Kista, Sweden.

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Ponizovskaya, E., Thylen, L., Bratkovsky, A. et al. Binary metal and semiconductor quantum dot metamaterials with negative optical dielectric constant and compensated loss for small volume waveguides, modulators and switches. Appl. Phys. A 95, 1029–1032 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-009-5145-y

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