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Hierarchical Self-assembly of Nanoparticles for Optical Metamaterials by Gomez-Graña, Sergio; Beulze, Aurélie Le; Treguer-Delapierre, Mona; Mornet, Stéphane; Duguet, Etienne; Grana, Eftychia; Cloutet, Eric; Hadziioannou, Georges; Leng, Jacques; Salmon, Jean-Baptiste; Kravets, Vasyl G.; Grigorenko, Alexander N.; Peyyety, Naga A.; Ponsinet, Virginie; Richetti, Philippe; Baron, Alexandre; Torrent, Daniel; Barois, Philippe is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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Hierarchical self-assembly arranges nanostructures at different length scales. It gradually becomes an effective method of fabricating artificial metamaterials from composite nanostructures tailored for a particular response. Hierarchical self-assembly overcomes shortcomings of "top-down" methods by significantly reducing fabrication time and making it possible to form bulk materials. Here we report an application of hierarchical self-assembly of metal nanoparticles for the creation of the first isotropic optical metamaterial with strong artificial magnetism in blue light. We have used colloidal self-assembly to create artificial "nanomolecules" that generate the desired magnetic response and microfluidic self-assembly to produce a bulk metastructure. We demonstrate that the magnetic response of the final material is accurately described by an isotropic magnetic permeability that satisfies the principle of locality. Our approach unlocks the fabrication of large volumes of composite nanomaterials. Moreover, the spatial disorder inherent to this "bottom-up" method holds the key to solving the non-locality problem. The technique can be readily extended to the future generations of low

Author

Gomez-Graña, Sergio; Beulze, Aurélie Le; Treguer-Delapierre, Mona; Mornet, Stéphane; Duguet, Etienne; Grana, Eftychia; Cloutet, Eric; Hadziioannou, Georges; Leng, Jacques; Salmon, Jean-Baptiste; Kravets, Vasyl G.; Grigorenko, Alexander N.; Peyyety, Naga A.; Ponsinet, Virginie; Richetti, Philippe; Baron, Alexandre; Torrent, Daniel; Barois, Philippe

Published

2016

Language

EN