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Blue–green–red light left-handed metamaterials from disorder dendritic cells

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We demonstrate a visible light frequency left-handed metamaterial (LHM) composed of disorder dendritic cells and a novel bottom-up approach to fabricate the LHM using double template assisted electrochemical deposition method. When the diameters of the cells and the width of the second dendrite is about 500–700 nm and 30–120 nm, the as-prepared silver dendritic structural array appears a passband at wavelength of 470, 510 and 610 nm, respectively. The whole left-handed resonance behavior will not be affected greatly for cell variations below ±7 %. The LHM may realize the slab focusing effect at blue, green and red light wavelength, the focused point image with intensity 10 % higher than light source. It would be significant to accelerate the development of visible frequency LHMs.

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This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 50936002, 11174234, 51272215 and the National Key Scientific Program of China under project No. 2012CB921503.

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    Yang Yang, Xiaopeng Zhao, Hui Liu & Jiankai Xiang

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Yang, Y., Zhao, X., Liu, H. et al. Blue–green–red light left-handed metamaterials from disorder dendritic cells. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 24, 3330–3337 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-013-1251-x

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