Experimental verification of epsilon-near-zero metamaterial coupling and energy squeezing using a microwave waveguide

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Edwards, Brian ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a   Young, Michael E ^a   Silveirinha, Mário ^a,b   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ANOMALOUS PROPERTIES; ENERGY SQUEEZING; EPSILON-NEAR-ZERO METAMATERIAL COUPLING; ZERO-PERMITTIVITY REGION;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 38549091556     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.033903     Document Type: Article

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