title: Reconfigurable photonic metamaterials.
abstract: We introduce mechanically reconfigurable photonic metamaterials (RPMs) as a flexible platform for realizing metamaterial devices with reversible and large-range tunable characteristics in the optical part of the spectrum. Here we illustrate this concept for a temperature-driven RPM exhibiting reversible relative transmission changes of up to 50%.
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom. jo2c09@orc.soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Ou
authors.forename: E
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authors.lastname: Plum
authors.forename: L
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authors.lastname: Jiang
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authors.lastname: Zheludev