Strategy for designing epsilon-near-zero nanostructured metamaterials over a frequency range

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Goncharenko, Anatoliy V ^a,b   Chen, Kuan Ren ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Physics Institute   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

effective medium approximation; epsilon near zero; metamaterials

Indexed keywords

NANOPHOTONICS;

EFFECTIVE MEDIUM APPROXIMATION; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; EPSILON-NEAR ZEROS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; METAL-DIELECTRIC COMPOSITES; NANO-STRUCTURED; PRODUCTION PROCEDURE;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 80455145117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3332833     Document Type: Article

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