Backward Tamm states in left-handed metamaterials

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Namdar, Abdolrahman ^a,b   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AZARBAIJAN SHAHID MADANI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOTONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VORTEX FLOW;

DISPERSION PROPERTIES; METAMATERIALS; TAMM STATES;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33748806326     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2352794     Document Type: Article

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