Optical negative-index bulk metamaterials consisting of 2D perforated metal-dielectric stacks

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 6778-6787

  Zhang, Shuang ^a   Fan, Wenjun ^a   Panoiu, N C ^b   Malloy, K J ^a   Osgood, R M ^b   Brueck, S R J ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE PROPAGATION;

METAL-DIELECTRIC STACKS; NEAR-INFRARED NEGATIVE-INDEX METAMATERIAL (NIM); SCATTERING MATRIX;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33746326430     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006778     Document Type: Article

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