Contents: (Adv. Funct. Mater. 7/2010)

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 960 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1616-301X
• DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201090023

✦ Synopsis

As part of ongoing efforts to create metamaterials by engineered self-organization using solidification of eutectics, D. A. Pawlak et al. report on page 1116 the fabrication of a fractal material with split-tubes mimicking (in cross section) the famous split-ring resonators (SRRs). The latter, when made of metal, are the basic element of a structure showing negative refractive index. This article shows that metallo-dielectric structures can be fabricated. The method employed has high potential for manufacturing materials with various functionalities.

Photonic Crystals

Over the last decade, direct laser writing via two-photon absorption turned from a laboratory curiosity into a versatile technique for the fabrication of 3D nano-and microstructures. Especially, in the field of nanophotonics novel structures could be fabricated and tested for agreement with theory. G. von Freymann and co-workers review recent progress in the field on page 1038. The cover image displays a potpourri of complex 3D nanostructures for photonics. Cover artwork by