Gold helix photonic metamaterials: A numerical parameter study

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1059-1069

  Gansel, Justyna K ^a   Wegener, Martin ^a,b   Burger, Sven ^c   Linden, Stefan ^a,d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HELICAL ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; CIRCULAR POLARIZERS; END-FIRE; HELIX PITCH; INTERACTION EFFECT; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; NUMERICAL PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS; SQUARE LATTICES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL LATTICES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 75249096975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001059     Document Type: Article

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