Systematic surface waves analysis at the interfaces of composite DNG/SNG media

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8513-8524

  Sounas, D L ^a   Kantartzis, N V ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAMATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BRILLOUIN ZONE EDGE; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; EFFICIENT ANALYSIS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; FIRST BRILLOUIN ZONE; NON-LOCAL PHENOMENA; SPLIT RING RESONATOR;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 66449104354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008513     Document Type: Article

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