Chiral metamaterials: Simulations and experiments

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Bingnan ^a   Zhou, Jiangfeng ^a   Koschny, Thomas ^a,b,c   Kafesaki, Maria ^b,c   Soukoulis, Costas M ^a,b,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chirality; Metamaterials; Negative refraction; Optical activity

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVES; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; ISOTROPIC MODELS; NATURAL MATERIALS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; RETRIEVAL PROCEDURES;

CHIRALITY; DICHROISM; ENANTIOMERS; LIGHT REFRACTION; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFRACTION; SIMULATORS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 72249089035     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/11/11/114003     Document Type: Article

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