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- Title
Dirac cones induced by accidental degeneracy in photonic crystals and zero-refractive-index materials.
- Authors
Huang, Xueqin; Lai, Yun; Hang, Zhi Hong; Zheng, Huihuo; Chan, C. T.
- Abstract
A zero-refractive-index metamaterial is one in which waves do not experience any spatial phase change, and such a peculiar material has many interesting wave-manipulating properties. These materials can in principle be realized using man-made composites comprising metallic resonators or chiral inclusions, but metallic components have losses that compromise functionality at high frequencies. It would be highly desirable if we could achieve a zero refractive index using dielectrics alone. Here, we show that by employing accidental degeneracy, dielectric photonic crystals can be designed and fabricated that exhibit Dirac cone dispersion at the centre of the Brillouin zone at a finite frequency. In addition to many interesting properties intrinsic to a Dirac cone dispersion, we can use effective medium theory to relate the photonic crystal to a material with effectively zero permittivity and permeability. We then numerically and experimentally demonstrate in the microwave regime that such dielectric photonic crystals with reasonable dielectric constants manipulate waves as if they had near-zero refractive indices at and near the Dirac point frequency.
- Subjects
DIRAC equation; METAMATERIALS; REFRACTIVE index; DIELECTRICS; PERMITTIVITY; PERMEABILITY; PHOTONICS
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2011, Vol 10, Issue 8, p582
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmat3030