Today's Coffee hour has been canceled. Mikhail will be speaking next week 11/21 hope to see you there. Thank you, Heather L Anthrop From: Anthrop, Heather L Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:27 PM To: bnc-all@ecn.purdue.edu Subject: NSAC Coffee Hour Reminder Please join us for today's NSAC Coffee Hour at 3:30 pm in the Birck atrium featuring Mikhail Shalaginov. Plasmonic waveguides cladded by hyperbolic metamaterials Strongly anisotropic media with hyperbolic dispersion can be used for claddings of plasmonic waveguides. In order to analyze the fundamental properties of such waveguides, we analytically study 1D and 2D waveguides arranged of a hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) in a HMM-Insulator-HMM (HIH) structure. We show that hyperbolic metamaterial claddings give flexibility in designing the properties of HIH waveguides. Our comparative study on plasmonic waveguides reveals that HIH-type waveguides can have a higher performance than MIM or IMI waveguides.