On electromagnetics of an isotropic chiral medium moving at constant velocity

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2078, 2007, Pages 397-418

  Mackay, Tom G ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beltrami field; Bohren transform; Dyadic Green function; Faraday chiral medium; Isotropic chiral medium; Negative phase velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 36349015495     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1770     Document Type: Article

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