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3D Isotropic Magnetic and Negative Index Nanocluster Metamaterials

Abstract

We investigate the optical properties of metamaterials formed by collections of three-dimensional clusters of plasmonic nanoparticles. This type of nanoclusters (NCs) consist of spherical constellations of metallic nanospheres arranged around a central dielectric sphere and support collective plasmon modes among which the most relevant are those associated with the induced electric and magnetic dipole resonances. We discuss the effective electric and magnetic polarizabilities of NCs, emphasizing their isotropic properties, and we show that dense packed arrays of NCs can be used to realize metamaterials with negative effective permittivity and permeability, and even negative effective refractive index at visible frequencies. © 2011 IEEE.

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