Title :
Selective erasure and refilling of liquid metal based terahertz metamaterials
Author :
Jinqi Wang ; Shuchang Liu ; Guruswamy, Sivaraman ; Nahata, Ajay
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a technique to selectively erase and refill unit cells of THz metamaterials, which are formed by injecting eutectic gallium indium, a liquid metal at room temperature, into microchannels in a polydimethylsiloxance mold.
Keywords :
eutectic alloys; gallium alloys; indium alloys; liquid alloys; polymers; terahertz metamaterials; GaIn; eutectic gallium indium; liquid metal; microchannels; polydimethylsiloxance mold; refilling; selective erasure; temperature 293 K to 298 K; terahertz metamaterials; Liquids; Metals; Metamaterials; Microchannels; Optical ring resonators; Resonant frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
