On the signs of the imaginary parts of the effective permittivity and permeability in metamaterials

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1016-1021

  Woodley, J ^a   Mojahedi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAMATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; DIELECTRIC SPHERES; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; IMAGINARY PARTS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; S -PARAMETERS; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; STRIP WIRES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77955681459     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001016     Document Type: Article

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