Physical limitations on metamaterials: Restrictions on scattering and absorption over a frequency interval

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 7146-7151

  Sohl, Christian ^a   Gustafsson, Mats ^a   Kristensson, Gerhard ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BROADBAND NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; PERMITTIVITY;

HOLOMORPHIC PROPERTIES; METAMATERIALS; SCATTERERS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 36448993017     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/22/042     Document Type: Article

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