Volumetric layered transmission-line metamaterial exhibiting a negative refractive index

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 553-570

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LINES; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

INTUITIVE EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSMISSION-LINE LAYERS; VOLUMETRIC LAYERED TOPOLOGY; VOLUMETRIC METAMATERIALS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 33645743457     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000553     Document Type: Article

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