On mediums with negative phase velocity: A brief overview

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4806, Issue , 2002, Pages 176-180

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   McCall, Martin W ^b   Weiglhofer, Werner S ^c   Gerardin, Jaline ^a   Wang, Jianwei ^a  

^a Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Negative phase velocity; Negative real permeability; Negative real permittivity

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; FREQUENCIES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LENSES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PHASE VELOCITY;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0036417335     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.473003     Document Type: Article

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