An anisotropic negative refractive index medium operated at multiple-angle incidences

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 24189-24197

  Yang, Tien Chung ^a   Yang, Yu Hang ^a   Yen, Ta Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LIGHT REFRACTION; METAMATERIALS; REFRACTOMETERS;

ANGLE INCIDENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; EXTERNAL EXCITATION; INCIDENT ANGLES; MATERIAL PARAMETER; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; NEW PHYSICS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 73949093635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.024189     Document Type: Article

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