Loss-induced omnidirectional bending to the normal in μ-near-zero metamaterials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Feng, Simin ^a  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF INCIDENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; HIGH-TO-LOW; MATERIAL LOSS; PROPAGATION LOSS;

METAMATERIALS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84861063925     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.193904     Document Type: Article

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