Composite chiral metamaterials with negative refractive index and high values of the figure of merit

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6146-6156

  Li, Zhaofeng ^a   Alici, Kamil Boratay ^a   Caglayan, Humeyra ^a   Kafesaki, Maria ^b   Soukoulis, Costas M ^b,c   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERMITTIVITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WIRE;

CHIRAL METAMATERIALS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVES; EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; FIGURE OF MERITS; METALLIC WIRE; NEGATIVE INDEX; NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RIGHT CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; TRANSMISSION PEAKS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ARTICLE; LIGHT; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84858982033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006146     Document Type: Article

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