Tunable two-dimensional left-handed material consisting of ferrite rods and metallic wires

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13373-13380

  Zhao, Hongjie ^a,b   Zhou, Ji ^a   Kang, Lei ^a   Zhao, Qian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Aerospace Research Institute of Special Material and Processing Technology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FERRITE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REFRACTION; WIRE;

EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; LEFT HANDED MATERIALS; LEFT-HANDED MATERIAL; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY; NEGATIVE REFRACTION INDEX; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

METAMATERIALS;

FERRIC ION; FERRITE; METAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 68349148186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013373     Document Type: Article

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