Tightly coupled tripole conductor pairs as constituents for a planar 2D-isotropic negative refractive index metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 15216-15227

  Vallecchi, Andrea ^a,b   Capolino, Filippo ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; METAMATERIALS; REFRACTION;

DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; DISPERSION DIAGRAMS; EFFECTIVE NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; OPERATIONAL FREQUENCY; STRUCTURE PARAMETER; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 69049090881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015216     Document Type: Article

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