An efficient way to reduce losses of left-handed metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11147-11152

  Zhou, Jiangfeng ^a,b   Koschny, Thomas ^a,c   Soukoulis, Costasm ^a,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

CAPACITANCE RATIO; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; FIGURE OF MERITS; FISHNET STRUCTURE; LEFT HANDED METAMATERIAL; THZ FREQUENCIES;

METAMATERIALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ISOMERISM; LIGHT; MATERIALS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ISOMERISM; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 47949092593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011147     Document Type: Article

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