Strategy for designing broadband epsilon-near-zero metamaterials

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 984-989

  Sun, L ^a   Yu, K W ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY BANDS; PERMITTIVITY;

EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; ELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; INVERSE ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; OPERATING BANDS; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPECTRAL SPACES;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84861391758     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.000984     Document Type: Article

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