Michelle R Stem
Complete Consulting Services, LLC, USA
Title: A new paradigm: Metamaterial and upconversion effects in natural materials
Biography
Biography: Michelle R Stem
Abstract
This presentation will discuss the search, discovery, exploration and examination of the photonic control properties of natural, untreated opals having properties that were previously thought to exist only in artificially created materials. I will discuss the discovery of the first truly natural, untreated materials displaying: negative-index metamaterial, anti-Stokes upconversion, photonic glass, spontaneous laser emissions, and microspheroid cluster boundary effects. These materials display these photonic properties in visible light frequencies, with no toxic elements, in ambient conditions, and with significantly high energy conversion efficiency. Natural materials with such photonic control may be developed for broader applications in solar power, space exploration, energy production, stealth technologies, waveguides, microscopy, and photonic data storage/transmission.