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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2007
Applicant:
Nader Engheta, Wayne, PA (US);
Inventor:
Nader Engheta, Wayne, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 2/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A lumped nanocircuit element design at IR and optical frequencies is provided that can effectively act as a lumped 'diode' and a lumped 'rectifier' for rectifying optical field displacement currents or optical electric field. The lumped nanocircuit element design can also act as a lumped second harmonic generator. The element is formed by juxtaposing an epsilon-negative nanoparticle with a nonlinear optical nanostructure.