Photonic metamaterials: Magnetism at optical frequencies

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1097-1104

  Linden, Stefan ^a   Enkrich, Christian ^b   Dolling, Gunnar ^b   Klein, Matthias W ^b   Zhou, Jiangfeng ^c   Koschny, Thomas ^d,e   Soukoulis, Costas M ^d,e,f   Burger, Sven ^g,h   Schmidt, Frank ^g,h   Wegener, Martin ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c 494 Town Engineering Building   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^g ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^h Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metamaterial; Negative permeability; Split ring resonator (SRR)

Indexed keywords

LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETISM; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

METAMATERIALS; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY; PHOTONICS; SPLIT RING RESONATOR (SRR);

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33845679814     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.880600     Document Type: Article

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