Evaluation and illustration of the properties of Metamaterials using field summation

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1096-1106

  Acher, Olivier ^a   Lerat, Jean Marie ^b   Malléjac, Nicolas ^a  

^a CEA LE RIPAULT   (France)

^b SATIMO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION SOFTWARE; FIELD SUMMATION METHOD; METAMATERIALS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33846876597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001096     Document Type: Article

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