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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Metamaterials For Aerospace Applications

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 6 April 2010, reviews electromagnetic and optical metamaterials for aerospace use. It was produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. The report covers super-lenses and hyper-lenses for imaging objects smaller than the diffraction limit, slowing light to shrink components, energy-harvesting absorbers, and one-way chiral devices. It concludes that metamaterials matter for aerospace because they allow smaller, lighter components.

  • p. 3 …Hyperlens Based on a Converging Array of Metal Wires ........................ 10 Figure 9. Far-Field Super-lens…
  • p. 4 …Radiative Antenna (Single Metal Strip} Coupled to a Dark Antenna (Two Perpendicular Metal Bars) .......................................................... 19 Figure…
  • p. 7 …Instead of using metallic structures deposited on a substrate (left panel of Figure 3), CMMs consist…
  • p. 8 …high (or the dielectric permittivity of a metal is.,not sufficiently large), electrostatfc resonances disrupt magnetic…
  • p. 11 …simple holes that were milled in the metal using an FIB. They were buried underneath the…
  • p. 14 …The hyper-lens involves an array of thin metallic wires converging towards the tip. As is…
  • p. 21 …to be negative (for example, a metal-dielectric-metal waveguide would suffice), the key here is…
  • p. 22 …Radiative element (metal strip) by itself gets strongly polarized by the incident EM wave, resulting in…
  • p. 23 …radiative antenna (single metal strip) coupled to a dark antenna (two perpendfcular metal bars). Such metamaterial…
  • p. 27 …Metamaterials tend to be lossy because of the large field concentration in the metal. Therefore, work…
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Figure 14. Schematic of Pulse Compression In Magnetized Plasma ...................... 16
Figure 15. Trapped Rainbow: A Waveguide With Negative Index Core Can Stop
Light ........................................................................................ ,............................ 17
Figure 16. "Plasmonic Moleculeu Exhibiting EIT ................................................... 18
Figure 17. True Multi-Layer Metamaterial With a Unit Cell Shown in Figure16:
Radiative Antenna (Single Metal Strip} Coupled to a Dark Antenna
(Two Perpendicular Metal Bars) .......................................................... 19
Figure 18. "Perfect" Narrow-Band Microwave Absorber ....................................... 20
Figure 19. Wide-Angle Plasmonic Absorber Based on Negative Index
Metamaterial .......................................................................................................... 21
Figure 20. Specific Design of a Wide-Angle Plasmonic Absorber Based on Negative
Index Metamaterial Operating at A= 1550 nm ..................................... 22
Figure 21. Experimental Reflectivity vs. Wavelength and Theoretical Plot of
Reflectivity COntours ........................................................................... 23
Figure 22. Preliminary Attempts to Design a Better Absorber Using Complementary
MetaMaterlals CU-shaped C-MM) ......................................................... 25
Figure 23. Engineering the Complex Reflectivity Coefficient Using the Concept of a
Meta Mirror. ......................................................................................... 26
Figure 24. Example of a Generic Chiral Metamaterial ........................................... 28
Figure 25. Example of Time-Irreversibility of Light Propagation Inside the Twisted
Fiber Core ........................................................................_..................... 29
Figure 26. THz Properties of an Electric Split Ring Resonator .............................. 31
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