Double Dirac cones in triangular-lattice metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9925-9939

  Sakoda, Kazuaki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ARBITRARY SHAPE; BRILLOUIN ZONES; DIRAC POINT; QUADRATIC DISPERSION; TIGHT-BINDING APPROXIMATIONS; TRIANGULAR-LATTICE;

METAMATERIALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84861128904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009925     Document Type: Article

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