Metal-free plasmonic metamaterials with wide-range tunable optical properties are highly desired for various components in future integrated optical devices. Designing a ceramic-ceramic hybrid metamaterial has been theoretically proposed as a solution to this critical optical material demand. However, the processing of such all-ceramic metamaterials is challenging due to difficulties in integrating two very dissimilar ceramic phases as one hybrid system. In this work, an oxide-nitride hybrid metamaterial combining two highly dissimilar ceramic phases, i.e., semiconducting weak ferromagnetic NiO nanorods and conductive plasmonic TiN matrix, has been successfully integrated as a unique vertically aligned nanocomposite form. Highly anisotropic optical properties such as hyperbolic dispersions and strong magneto-optical coupling have been demonstrated under room temperature. The novel functionalities presented show the strong potentials of this new ceramic-ceramic hybrid thin film platform and its future applications in next-generation nanophotonics and magneto-optical integrated devices without the lossy metallic components.
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