Observation of slow-light in a metamaterials waveguide at microwave frequencies

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Savo, Salvatore ^a,b   Casse, B D F ^a   Lu, Wentao ^a   Sridhar, Srinivas ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD WAVES; DIELECTRIC CORE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GROUP DELAY DISPERSION; MICROWAVE REGIME; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PULSED MEASUREMENTS; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

GROUP DELAY; METAMATERIALS; WAVEGUIDES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 79955686011     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3583521     Document Type: Article

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