Enhancing and suppressing radiation with some permeability-near-zero structures

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16587-16593

  Jin, Yi ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIVE RADIATION; LINE CURRENTS; PERFECT ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR; SPECIAL PROPERTIES; ZERO STRUCTURE;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; PERMEABILITY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PERMEABILITY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77955636449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016587     Document Type: Article

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