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Light reflects as a vortex off a metamaterial with unusual optical properties

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Metamaterials made of magnetic photonic crystals have been generated and tuned to a theoretically predicted transition point at which peculiar optical properties emerge. For example, when light is shone on a slab of the material, some of it is reflected back as a spatio-temporal vortex. Strange light-scattering behaviours emerge from magnetic photonic crystals tuned to a specific transition point.

Source: Nature

DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-01624-9

Language: English

Topic: Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

Subfield: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $12,690

OpenAlex ID: W4410823562

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