Reflectance and absorbance of all-dielectric metamaterial composites with fractal boundaries: A numerical investigation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Mejdoubi, A ^a   Brosseau, C ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCE; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITIES; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; DIELECTRIC INCLUSIONS; FINITE ELEMENTS; FRACTAL BOUNDARIES; HETEROSTRUCTURES; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; HOST MATRICES; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTRINSIC LOSS; LENGTH SCALE; MICROWAVE REFLECTORS; NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PLANE WAVES; REAL PARTS; SHAPE ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

FRACTALS; METAMATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY;

REFLECTION;

EID: 59349112743     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3072692     Document Type: Article

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