Verification of impedance matching at the surface of left-handed materials

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2548-2552

  Aydin, Koray ^a   Bulu, Irfan ^a   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Impedance matching; Left handed materials; Metamaterials; Perfect lens; Reflection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LENSES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FDTD SIMULATIONS; LEFT HANDED MATERIALS (LHM); METAMATERIALS; PERFECT LENS;

IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC);

EID: 33749493060     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.22003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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