A positive future for double-negative metamaterials

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 4 II, 2005, Pages 1535-1555

  Engheta, Nader ^a   Ziolkowski, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; Metamaterials (MTMs); Negative index material; Negative refraction; Resonators; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; INCLUSIONS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

METAMATERIALS (MTM); NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIALS (NIM); NEGATIVE REFRACTION; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 18744406357     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845188     Document Type: Article

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