Abstract
Metamaterials are artificially structured materials which attain their unconventional macroscopic properties from their cellular configuration rather than their constituent chemical composition. The judicious design of this cellular structure opens the possibility to program and control the optical, mechanical, acoustic, or thermal responses of metamaterials. This Ph.D. dissertation focuses on scalable design and manufacturing strategies for optical and mechanical metamaterials. The fabrication of optical metamaterials still relies heavily on low-throughput process such as electron beam lithography, which is a serial technique. Thus, there is a growing need for the development of high-throughput, parallel processes to make the fabrication of optical metamaterials more accessible and cost-effective. The first part of this dissertation presents a scalable manufacturing method, termed “roll-to-roll laser induced superplasticity” (R2RLIS), for the production of flexible optical metamaterials, specifically metallic near-perfect absorbers. R2RLIS enables the rapid and inexpensive fabrication of ultra-smooth metallic nanostructures over large areas using conventional CO2 engravers or inexpensive diode lasers. Using low-cost metal/epoxy nanomolds, the minimum feature size obtained by R2RLIS was
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