Anisotropic transmission-line metamaterials for 2-d transformation optics applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1634-1645

  Zedler, Michael ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloak; corner reflector; metamaterial; NRI TL; transformation optics

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC LINES; METAMATERIALS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REFLECTION; TENSORS;

CLOAK; CORNER REFLECTOR; EFFECTIVE MATERIAL PARAMETERS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; LOADED TRANSMISSION LINES; OFF-DIAGONAL ELEMENTS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; TRANSMISSION LINE METAMATERIALS;

INVISIBILITY CLOAKS;

EID: 80053121732     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2114310     Document Type: Article

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