Near-zero-index nanophotonic technologies

Project Information

NZINATECH

Grant agreement ID: 948504

DOI

10.3030/948504

EC signature date 25 August 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 625,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 625,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD PUBLICA DE NAVARRA
Spain

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Quantum vacuum amplification in time-varying media with arbitrary temporal profiles

Author(s): A. Ganfornina-Andrades, J. E. Vázquez-Lozano, I. Liberal
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.6.043320

Orthogonal Thermal Noise and Transmission Signals: A New Coherent Perfect Absorption’s Feature

Author(s): Douglas Oña, Angel Ortega-Gomez, Osmery Hernández, Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 133, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.103801

Quantum and thermal noise in coupled non-Hermitian waveguide systems with different models of gain and loss

Author(s): Osmery Hernández, Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 81-94, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0512

Review on the Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs in Thermal Emission Engineering

Author(s): J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano, Iñigo Liberal
Published in: ACS Applied Optical Materials, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 898-927, ISSN 2771-9855
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acsaom.4c00030

Effect of Epsilon-Near-Zero Modes on the Casimir Interaction between Ultrathin Films

Author(s): Tao Gong, Iñigo Liberal, Benjamin Spreng, Miguel Camacho, Nader Engheta, and Jeremy N. Munday
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2023, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.196901

Dispersion coding of ENZ media via multiple photonic dopants

Author(s): Ziheng Zhou, Hao Li, Wangyu Sun, Yijing He, Iñigo Liberal, Nader Engheta, Zhenghe Feng, Yue Li
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, 2022, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-00892-8

On the lossy character of Y-branches and their analogy to Wilkinson power dividers

Author(s): Douglas Oña, Osmery Hernández, Angel Ortega-Gomez, David González-Andrade, Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Optics Continuum, Issue 3, 2024, Page(s) 2150, ISSN 2770-0208
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optcon.540789

Shaping the quantum vacuum with anisotropic temporal boundaries

Author(s): J.E. Vazquez-Lozano; Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Nanophotonics, 2023, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0491

Direct observation of ideal electromagnetic fluids

Author(s): Hao Li, Ziheng Zhou, Wangyu Sun, Michaël Lobet, Nader Engheta, Iñigo Liberal, Yue Li
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32187-2

Addressing the impact of surface roughness on epsilon-near-zero substrate

Author(s): David Navajas, José M. Pérez-Escudero, María Elena Martínez-Hernández,Javier Goicoechea and Iñigo Liberal
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2023, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.04580

Symmetries and conservation of spin angular momentum, helicity, and chirality in photonic time-varying media

Author(s): Mohsen Mohammadi Jajin, J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano, Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 110, 2024, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.110.063522

Tutorial on the conservation of momentum in photonic time-varying media [Invited]

Author(s): Angel Ortega-Gomez; Michaël Lobet; J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano; Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Optical Materials Express, 2023, ISSN 2159-3930
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ome.485540

Dispersion effects in thermal emission from temporal metamaterials: high-frequency cutoffs

Author(s): Amaia Vertiz-Conde, Iñigo Liberal, J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 50, 2025, Page(s) 1097, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.545236

Spatiotemporal Symmetries and Energy-Momentum Conservation in Uniform Spacetime Metamaterials

Author(s): Iñigo Liberal, Antonio Ganfornina-Andrades, J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 5273-5280, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01496

Quantum antireflection temporal coatings: quantum state frequency shifting and inhibited thermal noise amplification

Author(s): Liberal, Iñigo; Vázquez-Lozano, J. Enrique; Pacheco-Peña, Victor
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023, ISSN 1863-8899
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202200720

Generalized approach to quantum interference in lossy N-port devices via a singular value decomposition.

Author(s): Osmery Hernández; Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Optics Express, 2022, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.456495

Noise Cancellation Effects in Integrated Photonics with Wilkinson Power Dividers

Author(s): Angel Ortega-Gomez; Osmery Hernández; Douglas Oña; Carlos Biurrun-Quel; Carlos del Río; Iñigo Liberal
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2023, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01675

Spectrally stable thermal emitters enabled by material-based high-impedance surfaces

Author(s): David Navajas; José M. Pérez-Escudero; Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Nanoscale Advances, 2023, ISSN 2516-0230
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2na00633b

Quantum Interference in Wilkinson Power Dividers

Author(s): Osmery Hernández; Angel Ortega‐Gomez; Mikel Bravo; Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022, ISSN 1863-8899
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202200095

Incandescent temporal metamaterials

Author(s): J.E. Vázquez-Lozano; Iñigo Liberal
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40281-2

Non-peer reviewed articles (7)

Nonperturbative decay dynamics inmetamaterial waveguides

Author(s): Iñigo Liberal and Rick W. Ziolkowski
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, 2021, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0044103

Light propagation and magnon-photon coupling in optically dispersive magnetic media

Author(s): V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, I. Liberal, and S. Viola Kusminskiy
Published in: Physical Review B, 2022, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.105.014409

How does light behave in a material whose refractive index vanishes?

Author(s): Iñigo Liberal and Nader Engheta
Published in: Physics Today, 2022, ISSN 0031-9228
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/pt.3.4968

Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials

Author(s): Michaël Lobet*, Iñigo Liberal*, Larissa Vertchenko*, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Nader Engheta and Eric Mazur
Published in: Light: Science and Applications, 2022, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-00790-z

Zero-index materials for classical and quantum light

Author(s): Iñigo Liberal, Andrea Alú and Nader Engheta
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, 2022, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0102712

Optomagnonics in Dispersive Media: Magnon-Photon Coupling Enhancement at the Epsilon-near-Zero Frequency

Author(s): V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, I. Liberal, and S. Viola Kusminskiy
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2022, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.183603

Geometry-independent antenna based on Epsilon-near-zero medium

Author(s): Hao Li, Ziheng Zhou, Yijing He, Wangyu Sun, Yue Li, Iñigo Liberal and Nader Engheta
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31013-z