Dual- and multiband chiral metamaterial structures with strong optical activity and negative refraction index

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 334-337

  Zarifi, Davoud ^a   Soleimani, Mohammad ^a   Nayyeri, Vahid ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chiral metamaterials (CMMs); dual and multiband structures; negative refractive index; optical activity

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL METAMATERIALS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVES; DESIGN CURVES; DUAL-BAND; GAMMADIONS; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; MULTIBAND; NEGATIVE REFRACTION INDEX; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL ACTIVITY;

FREQUENCY BANDS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84859955777     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2191261     Document Type: Article

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