Development of chiral negative refractive index metamaterials for the terahertz frequency regime

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 11 I, 2007, Pages 3052-3062

  Wongkasem, Nantakan ^a,b   Akyurtlu, Alkim ^a   Marx, Kenneth A ^c   Dong, Qi ^c   Li, Jin ^c   Goodhue, William D ^c,d  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiral; Metamaterials; Microwave; Negative refractive index; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT REFRACTION; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CHIRAL METAMATERIALS; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLING; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY;

CHIRALITY;

EID: 36849022063     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.909419     Document Type: Article

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