Negative refraction and flat-lens focusing in a 2D square-lattice photonic crystal at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 6766-6777

  Meisels, R ^a   Gajic R ^a,b,c   Kuchar, F ^a   Hingerl, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAND GAP; MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES; NEGATIVE REFRACTION; SQUARE-LATTICE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 33746347328     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006766     Document Type: Article

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