On the study of ellipsoidal nanowire metamaterials for biomedical applications

Abstract

Nanowire metamaterials play a pivotal role in a wide variety of applications including antennas research field and cancer detection in clinical practice. In the following we make a step forward by investigating properties of surface waves at the boundary of ellipsoidal nanowire metamaterial, specifically, we study effective properties of the ellipsoidal medium. The former could result in a possible application in clinical practice dealing with the cancer detection especially by having a deep insight into derived medium treatment approach due to the chosen model having similarities with the real biological systems containing cancer cells as the ellipsoidal inclusions. The future prospects could include translation of the obtained effective medium properties applying effective medium approximation models into cancer detection in clinical practice. The ultimate goal is to treat the investigated biological medium from the perspectives of the metamaterial theory.