Beyond Electron Based Metamaterials: Low-Loss Surface Phonon Polariton-Based Nano-Antenna Arrays Using Silicon Carbide

Silicon carbide is well-known as a high quality wide-band gap semiconductor for use in electronic and optoelectronic applications at high powers, temperatures and radiation environments due to its high breakdown field, wide bandgap, radiation hardness and thermal conductivity. Due to its relatively low lattice mismatch with GaN and AlN and its high thermal conductivity SiC also serves as a high quality, semi-insulating substrate for use in …