Can mixing materials make electromagnetic signals travel faster?

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2064-2091

  Sølna, Knut ^a   Milton, Graeme W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Effective parameters; Electromagnetic wave propagation; Group velocity; Homogenization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

DIELECTRIC TENSORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0036665206     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139901385084     Document Type: Article

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