Brief overview of recent developments on negative phase-velocity mediums (alias left-handed materials)

AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 407-410

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   McCall, Martin W ^b   Weiglhofer, Werner S ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Left handed materials; Negative phase velocity; Negative real permeability; Negative real permittivity

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; LENSES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS; ANISOTROPY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MICROSTRUCTURE;

LEFT-HANDED MATERIALS; MICROWAVE COMPOSITE MATERIALS; NEGATIVE PHASE VELOCITY; PHASE VELOCITY VECTOR; TIME-AVERAGED POUTING VECTOR; NEGATIVE REAL PERMEABILITY; NEGATIVE REAL PERMITTIVITY;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; MICROWAVES;

EID: 0036977904     PISSN: 14348411     EISSN: 16180399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1434-8411-54100129     Document Type: Article

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