Transmission line models for negative refractive index media and associated implementations without excess resonators

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 51-53

  Eleftheriades, George V ^a   Siddiqui, Omar ^a   Iyer, Ashwin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial dielectrics; Backward waves; Focusing; Left handed media (LHM); Metamaterials; Periodic structures

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

LEFT-HANDED MEDIA; METAMATERIALS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPLIT-RING RESONATORS;

TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

EID: 0037331629     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2003.808719     Document Type: Letter

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