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Exploiting Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications
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Author
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Karami, Morteza
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics, Electromagnetism
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Metamaterials are man-made structures developed to engineer electromagnetic waves, and they have been studied intensely in recent decades. Although there are still debates about the performance of these types of artificial materials, many practica...
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From Nonradiating Sources to Directionally Invisible Objects
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Author
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Hurwitz, Elisa
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics
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Description
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The goal of this dissertation is to extend the understanding of invisible objects, in particular nonradiating sources and directional nonscattering scatterers. First, variations of null-field nonradiating sources are derived from Maxwell's equatio...
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Index-antiguided planar waveguide lasers with large mode area
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Author
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Liu, Yuanye
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics
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Description
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The on-going research and application interests with high power large-mode-area (LMA) waveguide lasers, especially in fiber geometry, at the beginning of this century drive the development of many novel waveguide designs. Index antiguiding, propos...
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Instrumentation, techniques, and evaluation of ePTV for particle manipulation studies using micro-scale oscillators
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Author
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Kafashi, Sajad
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Physics
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Description
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A need for dynamic micro-particle manipulation is the ability to position fragile particles without damaging them, for instance biological particles like blood cells, stem cells, neurons, pancreatic β cells, DNA, chromosomes, for repeated measurem...
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THEORY, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS OF INFRARED HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS
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Author
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Fullager, Daniel
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Engineering, Physics
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Description
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ABSTRACTDANIEL B. FULLAGER. Theory, characterization and applications of infraredhyperbolic metamaterials. (Under the direction of DR. MICHAEL A. FIDDY)Hyperbolic Metamaterials (HMMs) are engineered structures capable of supporting lightmatterinte...