Radiation from a traveling-wave current sheet at the interface between a conventional material and a metamaterial with negative permittivity and permeability

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 460-463

  Alu, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna; Left handed medium; Metamaterials; Negative index of refraction; Negative permeability; Negative permittivity

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY;

DOUBLE NEGATIVE MEDIA; DOUBLE POSITIVE MEDIUM; METAMATERIAL; NEGATIVE INDEX OF REFRACTION; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY; NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY; POYNTING VECTOR; TRAVELING-WAVE CURRENT SHEET;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0037147409     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.10638     Document Type: Article

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