Hydrogen absorbing multilayers as switchable metamaterials

 

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Auteurs: Azofeifa, Daniel, Clark Binns, Neville, Vargas, William, Bermúdez Ureña, Esteban
Format: artículo original
Date de publication:2025
Description:Multilayered metamaterials with switchable optical properties are desirable for application purposes such as sensors and imaging systems. Some rare-earth metals (RE) could be used for this purpose as they undergo a metal-dielectric phase transition upon hydrogen absorption. Alternating layers of palladium and REs exposed to a hydrogen atmosphere are shown to exhibit a switchable and reversible reflectance band. The reflectance band is tunable across the visible spectrum by changing the thickness of the RE layers, while increasing the number of layers enhances the reflectance band amplitude. The result is a switchable multilayer metamaterial whose optical properties are tunable by changing the surrounding hydrogen pressure.
Pays:Kérwá
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Langue:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/103511
Accès en ligne:https://hdl.handle.net/10669/103511
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2025.140679
Mots-clés:Optical multilayers
Hyperbolic metamaterials
Hydrogen
Switchable optical properties
Rare-earth metals