Negative phase advance in polarization independent, multi-layer negative-index metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8835-8844

  Aydin, Koray ^a   Zhaofeng, Li ^a   Sahin, Levent ^a   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BACKWARD-WAVE PROPAGATION; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; LEFT-HANDED TRANSMISSION BANDS; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY; NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; TRANSMISSION MEASUREMENTS;

METAMATERIALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45249113661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008835     Document Type: Conference Paper

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