Numerical study of electromagnetic waves interacting with negative index materials

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 640-648

  Kolinko, Pavel ^a   Smith, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHTING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

FINITE-ELEMENT BASED ELECTROMAGNETIC SOLVER (HFSS); NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIALS; POSITIVE INDEX; STANDARD NUMERICAL PACKAGES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0142045165     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000640     Document Type: Article

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