• DocumentCode
    2025576
  • Title

    Passivity limitations on absorption properties of low-scattering objects

  • Author

    Estakhri, Nasim Mohammadi ; Fleury, Romain ; Soric, Jason ; Alu, Andrea

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    16-21 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    424
  • Lastpage
    426
  • Abstract
    We analyze the constraints governing absorption and scattering of arbitrary sensors or receiving antennas. Our findings bring forward interesting physical limitations on the amount of accessible absorption in a low-scattering sensor and suggest practical ways to achieve efficient designs for noninvasive sensors, based on the application needs. A subwavelength dipole antenna is studied as a numerical demonstration of our theory in the subwavelength limit.
  • Keywords
    dipole antennas; light absorption; light scattering; numerical analysis; optical design techniques; optical sensors; photodetectors; absorption properties; low-scattering objects; low-scattering sensor; optical designs; receiving antennas; subwavelength dipole antenna; Absorption; Dipole antennas; Receiving antennas; Scattering; Sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (METAMATERIALS), 2013 7th International Congress on
  • Conference_Location
    Talence
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-1229-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MetaMaterials.2013.6809074
  • Filename
    6809074