Dielectric metamaterials with effective self-duality and full-polarization omnidirectional brewster effect

Hao Luo; Jie Luo; Zhihui Zhang; Chao Wu; Quan Li; Wei Liu; Ruwen Peng; Mu Wang; Hongqiang Li; Yun Lai

doi:10.1038/s41377-024-01605-z

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Dielectric metamaterials with effective self-duality and full-polarization omnidirectional brewster effect

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- Dielectric metamaterials with effective self-duality and full-polarization omnidirectional brewster effect
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 11, Pages: 2680-2687(2024)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  2.School of Physical Science and Technology & Jiangsu key Laboratory of Frontier Material Physics and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
  3.School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  4.College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  5.College for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China
- Author bio：
  
  Jie Luo (luojie@suda.edu.cn)
  Hongqiang Li (hqlee@tongji.edu.cn)
  Yun Lai (laiyun@nju.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01605-z
  CLC：
- Received：04 March 2024，
  
  Revised：13 August 2024，
  
  Accepted：2024-08-25，
  
  Published Online：20 September 2024，
  
  Published：30 November 2024
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Luo, H. et al. Dielectric metamaterials with effective self-duality and full-polarization omnidirectional brewster effect. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 2680-2687 (2024).
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Luo, H. et al. Dielectric metamaterials with effective self-duality and full-polarization omnidirectional brewster effect. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 2680-2687 (2024). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01605-z.

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Abstract

Conventional dielectric solid materials

both natural and artificial

lack electromagnetic self-duality and thus require additional coatings to achieve impedance matching with free space. Here

we present a class of dielectric metamaterials that are effectively self-dual and vacuum-like

thereby exhibiting full-polarization omnidirectional impedance matching as an unusual Brewster effect extended across all incident angles and polarizations. With both birefringence and reflection eliminated regardless of wavefront and polarization

such anisotropic metamaterials could establish the electromagnetic equivalence with "stretched free space" in transformation optics

as substantiated through full-wave simulations and microwave experiments. Our findings open a practical pathway for realizing unprecedented polarization-independence and omnidirectional impedance-matching characteristics in pure dielectric solids.

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