Vortrag über „Negative index materials“
Zeit: 07.11.2019 16:15-17:15 pm
Raum: H13
Negative index materials: properties and applications
Hoài-Minh Nguyên (Chair of Analysis and Applied Mathematics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Abstract:
Negative-index metamaterials are engineered structures whose refractive index has a negative value over some frequency range. Their existence was postulated by Veselago in 1964 and confirmed experimentally by Shelby, Smith, and Schultz in 2001. Negative-index metamaterial research has been a very active topic of investigation not only because of potentially interesting applications but also because of challenges in understanding their surprising properties. From a mathematical point of view, the subtlety and the challenges in the study of negative-index metamaterials are from the sign-changing coefficients in the modelling equations, hence the ellipticity and the compactness are lost in general. Moreover, localize resonance, i.e., a phenomenon for which the field explodes in some regions and remains bounded in some others as the loss (the damping/viscosity coefficient) goes to 0, might occur. In this talk, I discuss superlensing and
cloaking applications of negative-index metamaterials, and the stability of associated fields in the frequency domain. Some mathematical ideas/techniques/tools used to analyse these phenomena are mentioned.
These involves deriving/analysing Cauchy’s problems, applying/establising three-sphere inequalities (with partial data), and introducing the removing localized singularity technique.