NANOSYSTEMS: PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, MATHEMATICS, 2012, 3 (3), P. 31–51
ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS OF SYNTHESIS OF HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS
A.V. Atrashchenko – National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics (ITMO); St. Petersburg, Russia, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, astron86@mail.ru.
A.A. Krasilin – National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics (ITMO), St. Petersburg, Russia; Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
I.S. Kuchuk – National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics (ITMO), St. Petersburg, Russia; Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University), St. Petersburg, Russia.
E.M. Aryslanova – National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics (ITMO), St. Petersburg, Russia.
S.A. Chivilikhin – National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics (ITMO), St. Petersburg, Russia.
P.A. Belov – National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics, and Optics (ITMO), St. Petersburg, Russia; Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Metamaterials are artificially created structures owning electromagnetic characteristics typical of traditional materials. The most promising metamaterials are hyperbolic media. Such systems are uniaxial materials with different signs of major components of the dielectric constant. Successful realization of such materials in optical frequency range is a metal nanowire medium formed in porous dielectric matrices by filling them with metal. The review considers the creation processes of dielectrics matrices with an ordered structure based on Al2O3 fabricated by means of anodization and filling of these matrices with various metals by electrochemical methods.
Keywords: hyperbolic metamaterials, porous aluminum oxide, anodizing, electro-chemical deposition, metals, nanowires.
UDC 544.653.23, 544.654.2
PACS 81.05.Xj, 81.15.Pq, 82.45.Aa, 81.07.Gf, 61.46.Km