Transformation media producing quasi-perfect isotropic emission

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20551-20556

  Tichit, Paul Henri ^a   Burokur, Shah Nawaz ^b   De Lustrac, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS NANTERRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

A-PLANE; ANTENNA DESIGN; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; COMPOSITE METAMATERIALS; DIRECTIVE RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; PRACTICAL REALIZATIONS; RADIATING SOURCES; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; WAVE MANIPULATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENGINEERING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENGINEERING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 80053951889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020551     Document Type: Article

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