Pairing an Epsilon-Negative Slab with a Mu-Negative Slab: Resonance, Tunneling and Transparency

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 10 I, 2003, Pages 2558-2571

  Alù, Andrea ^a,b   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Double negative material; Left handed material; Metamaterial; Negative index material; Negative index of refraction; Negative permeability; Negative permittivity; Transparency; Tunneling; Zero reflection

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; PERMITTIVITY; REFLECTION; VECTORS;

DOUBLE-NEGATIVE MATERIALS;

RESONANCE;

EID: 0142063051     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.817553     Document Type: Article

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