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Engineering of metallic nanorod-based hyperbolic metamaterials for broadband applications operating in the infrared regime

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Metamaterials are manmade structures that have attained considerable attention over the past 2 decades in the modern fields like cloaking, sensing, and imaging owing to their ability to harness electromagnetic fields. In this regard, we have inspected the dielectric properties of the hyperbolic metamaterials (HMM) made of metallic nanorods and dielectric medium at the infrared wavelength regime. The periodically arranged subwavelength-sized metallic nanorods embedded in the silicon dioxide (\(\text{SiO}_2\)) substrate glass. The spacing between two adjacent nanorods is of subwavelength in size. Furthermore, effective permittivity of the metamaterial has been analyzed by employing the Maxwell Garnett effective medium theory. Moreover, different metallic nanorod inclusions (Au, W, Pt and Ti) were taken into account. Hyperbolic features of the metamaterial have been observed, and it is noticed that hyperbolic features merely depend on the type of metallic nanorods and their size. The observations reveal that the dielectric properties of the metamaterial can be tuned by altering the radii of the metallic nanorod. Apart from dispersion, reflection, transmission and absorption features of the HMM are taken into account. It is noticed that reflection, transmission and absorption of the HMM depend on the type of metallic nanorod and its dimension. Such HMMs structures with exotic dielectric features would be useful for sensing, filtering, and absorption applications.

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This work was partially supported by the Higher Education Commission Pakistan (HEC) under [grant number 7922/Balochistan/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2017].

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus, 57000, Pakistan

    M. A. Baqir

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Lorestan, Iran

    Ali Farmani

  3. Department of Mathematics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus, 57000, Pakistan

    M. Raza

  4. Department of Physics, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Engineering and Technology (MNSUET), Multan, 60000, Pakistan

    Majid Niaz Akhtar

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

    A. Hussain

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Baqir, M.A., Farmani, A., Raza, M. et al. Engineering of metallic nanorod-based hyperbolic metamaterials for broadband applications operating in the infrared regime. Appl Nanosci 11, 229–240 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-020-01574-w

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