Hyperbolic metamaterial as super absorber for scattered fields generated at its surface
Abstract
We show that hyperbolic metamaterials (HMs) that exhibit hyperbolic wave-vector dispersion diagrams possess two important features related to super absorption: The total power scattered by a nanosphere is (i) greatly enhanced when placed at the HM surface, compared to other material surfaces, and (ii) almost totally directed into the HM. We show that these two features are peculiar of HM interfaces, and we support them using a spectral theory study of transverse-electric and magnetic waves scattered by a subwavelength nanosphere. We analyze the nanosphere's scattered power absorbed by various substrate configurations. We also consider various nanosphere materials. © 2012 American Physical Society.
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