A novel dispersive FDTD formulation for modeling transient propagation in chiral metamaterials

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2267-2276

  Akyurtlu, Alkim ^a   Werner, Douglas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MULTILAYERS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHIRAL METAMATERIALS; MAGNETOELECTRIC COUPLING; MULTILAYERED METAMATERIAL SLABS; PIECEWISE LINEAR RECURSIVE CONVOLUTION METHOD; POLARIZATION ROTATION; TRANSIENT PROPAGATION; WAVEFIELD DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 4644296259     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.834153     Document Type: Article

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