Tuning thermal emission in metamaterials composed by oriented polar inclusions
We investigated a metamaterial composed by silicon carbide (SiC) subwavelength oriented wires, onto silicon substrate in the mid- to long- infrared range. A simple but versatile method was developed and implemented, combining homogenization techniques with the transfer matrix method for birefringent layered materials to model an effective medium layer where different inclusions content (filling factor) as well as different shape and orientation of inclusions (depolarization factors) are taken into account.