Negative refraction in perspective

Electromagnetics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 365-389

  Boardman, A D ^a   King, N ^a   Velasco, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; FDTD; Left handed media; Negative phase velocity; Negative refraction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CAUSALITY; LEFT-HANDED MEDIA; NEGATIVE PHASE VELOCITY; NEGATIVE REFRACTION;

REFRACTION;

EID: 22944454512     PISSN: 02726343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02726340590957371     Document Type: Review

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