First-principles study of the optical properties of BaMoO3/SrHfO3 hyperbolic metamaterials

Abstract

The theoretical applications of hyperbolic metamaterials have generated excitement in multiple fields, particularly in super-resolution optics. In practice, however, the potential of HMMs has been limited by the shortcomings of their constituent parts. Primarily, these are high losses and instabilities in the metal component, which is typically gold or silver, and excessive thickness in both types of layers. In this paper, we use density functional theory to investigate BaMoO3-SrHfO3 metamaterials. We predict that these are hyperbolic throughout the visible range and have the potential to mitigate many of these limitations, including a significant loss reduction. We also examine the accuracy of the effective-medium theory, which is used to predict the bulk optical properties of multilayered HMMs.

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