Simulations and realizations of active right-handed metamaterials with negative refractive index

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10935-10946

  Nistad, Bertil ^a   Skaar, Johannes ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE;

LUMPED CIRCUIT MODEL; METAMATERIALS; PASSIVE RESONANCES;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 34548134874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010935     Document Type: Article

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