Multi-passband tunneling effect in multilayered epsilon-near-zero metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 12183-12188

  Liu, Liyuan ^a   Hu, Chenggang ^a   Zhao, Zeyu ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

(050.2230) Fabry P rot; (160.0160) Materials; (160.3918) Metamaterials; (230.7380); (261.3910) Optics of metals

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; PLASMA WAVES;

(230.7380); EPSILON-NEAR ZEROS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; OPTICS OF METALS; PLASMA FREQUENCIES; TRANSMISSION CURVE; TRANSMISSION PEAKS; TUNNELING EFFECTS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 67650541735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012183     Document Type: Article

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