A negative-refractive-index metamaterial for incident plane waves of arbitrary polarization

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 28-32

  Markley, Loïc ^a,b   Eleftheriades, George V ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Left handed media (LHM); Negative permeability; Negative permittivity; Negative refractive index; Polarization independence

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; PLANE WAVES; THIN STRIPS;

BANDWIDTH; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE TREATMENT;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 33947408138     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2007.890758     Document Type: Article

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