Observation of negative refraction and negative phase velocity in true left-handed metamaterials

Proceedings of the 36th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 959-962

  Ozbay, Ekmel ^a   Soukoulis, Costas M ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Left handed medium; Metamaterial; Negative phase velocity; Negative refraction; Split ring resonator

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; PHASE MEASUREMENT; PHASE SHIFTERS; RESONATORS;

LEFT-HANDED MEDIUM; METAMATERIAL; NEGATIVE PHASE VELOCITY; NEGATIVE REFRACTION; SPLIT RING RESONATOR;

REFRACTION;

EID: 41649118648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2006.281081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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